Exploratory Writers on a 5-Minute Stage encourages you to observe social phenomena, discover problems, and seek possible solutions using creativity and critical thinking. This course helps you write interesting, powerful and effective proposals and give successful oral presentations. Most importantly, this course gives you a five-minute stage on which you effectively and efficiently show all the key information on your proposal.
You may have Holmesian deduction, Shakespearian romance, or Picassonian chimera, but you have only five minutes—five minutes where you think out of box, turning a flight of fancy into a quartet of reality.
This course consists of two main elements: proposal writing and oral presentation. In the first half of the course, students are taught how to observe real-life problems, creatively come up with solutions, evaluate solutions in small-scale experiments, and write their proposals accordingly. In the second half, students are trained in visual aid design and oral presentation skills, so that they can collaboratively present their proposals in a simple language under just five minutes.
學習如何發掘問題、如何觀察社會生活現象、並如何運用批判思考技巧及創意找尋可能之解決方法。本堂課教你有趣、有力、有效的計畫書撰寫訣竅與成功口頭報告的重要元素，並在五分鐘內有效地表達訊息。
課程內容主要包含兩個重要部分：英文企劃書寫作與口頭報告。課程前半部將教導學生如何觀察生活周遭的疑難雜症，以創意發想解決問題，並透過小實驗檢測提案之成效，再將其過程及成果寫成企劃書；第二部分則訓練學生的簡報設計及英文口頭報告技巧，學生得以將探討主題之成果，在五分鐘內以淺顯易懂的語言，及團隊合作方式發表。