CAS 100 SYLLABUS

 

Dr. Jerry Zolten

Phone:  949-5113  (Voice Mail)      E-Mail:  jjz1@psu.edu

Office:  134 Arts Bldg.     

 

 

WEEK ONE   

            Orientation to Course/Introductions/Syllabus/Questions

WEEK TWO  

            An Introduction to Communication/Residual Messages/Message Packaging

WEEK THREE    

                        More on Message Packaging/Opening and Closing/Planned Extemporization

WEEK FOUR   

                        ------------------------>>QUIZ ON MESSAGE PACKAGING<<-------------------

                        ÞDUE DATE:  E-mail a description of your first exercise plan

                        First Communication Exercise 

WEEK FIVE               

Continued

WEEK SIX                            

Concluded    Strategies of Informing

WEEK SEVEN   

                        ÞDUE DATE:  E-mail description of plan. Audience Analysis and Choosing Content

WEEK EIGHT   

                        Second Communication Exercise

WEEK NINE      

                        Continued

WEEK TEN   

                        Concluded

WEEK ELEVEN   

                        Strategies of Persuading

ÞDUE DATE:  E-mail description of final plan

WEEK TWELVE  

            Final Communication Exercise 

WEEK THIRTEEN   

Continued

WEEK FOURTEEN   

Continued 

WEEK FIFTEEN    

Concluded

 

 

 

CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT

 

NO MORE THAN 3 ABSENCES;  MEET ALL DUE DATES;  SOUND PRACTICED WHEN YOU TALK;

PREPARE IN-DEPTH MESSAGE PLANS;  PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSIONS,  AND A  "C" IS GUARANTEED.

 

PRESENTATION ONE--20%,  PRESENTATION TWO--30%,  EXAM--10%,  FINAL PRESENTATION--30%,

COMMITMENT TO COURSE (INCLUDES ATTENDANCE, THOROUGHNESS IN WORK, ETC.)--10%.