2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

IUS/18 (ROMAN LAW AND LAWS OF ANCIENT TIMES)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian.

ORAL TEST

MAININO GIANLUCA CARLO JACOPO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of italian language.

Improvement in communication own skills.
When I have to stand up and speak to a large audience, I feel so uncomfortable that I am not able anymore to think and remember properly what I was going to say, and sometimes, after speaking, I have a feeling that I have not been well understood or followed at all. So I want to get more self-confident and powerful in public speaking. Wherever should the need arise, in my relations one-to-one or one-to-many, I want to learn to speak so that everybody may have interest in listening to me; I want to learn to make more convincing my speeches, my voice, my attitude; on the whole I want to learn something that I am not able to do yet as I would like. But if I really want so, I must try: because nobody can learn to speak to a large audience without trying to do practice in public speaking, as well as nobody can learn to swim without trying to dive into the water.

Searching for the lost art: from the beginnings of classical oratory to the modern theories of public speaking. The weapons of the speaker: actions, not words. The keys to the success of a statement, a presentation or a longer speech: technique and mental attitude. The idea: models, targets, destination. The processing: places, order, colors. The achievement: exposition, acting, memorization. Using visual supports, leading debates, speaking into a microphone.

Theoretical acquisition and practical experimentation - by several practices directly in lecturehall - of principal elements of public speaking and classical oratory.

For students who have attended the lectures:
materials and literature to study for examination - notes from lectures, cards and duplicated notes or pages of a handbook still in progress - will be indicated during the lectures.
For students who have not attended the lectures:
1) Marco Tullio Cicerone, L’arte di comunicare, a cura di Paolo Marsich, Milano 2007, Oscar Mondadori ed., 89 pages;
2) D. Carnegie, Come parlare in pubblico e convincere gli altri, Milano 2007, Tascabili Bompiani ed., 209 pages;
3) S. Mandel, Parlare in pubblico sicuri, preparati e organizzati, II edizione, Milano 2011, Franco Angeli ed., 87 pages.

Oral examination about contents of lectures or suggested books.
Attending lectures is not mandatory, but only students who have attended the lectures will be admitted to have a special examination, consisting - instead of a usual conversation - in a short speech agreed with the lecturer.

Requests of further informations to: gianluca.mainino@unipv.it