This course is designed for students who seek training or improvement in their English-language presentation skills for academic purposes. The focus is on English oral presentations, with special reference to poster presentations.

With the aid of interactive recording and networking media, not only can the peer audience provide timely and reviewable advice, but the presenters themselves have an opportunity to become their most rewarding critics. Students will be able to spot, mark, and envision their progress toward becoming an effective presenter.

For the presentation, students will be asked to prepare and present a short presentation about a topic of their choosing that is related to their discipline. They will be provided with a specific list of tips that they will be trying to accomplish through their presentation.

This course will not only teach presentation skills, but through the process of structuring and preparing a presentation, students will learn how to effectively conduct research for their topics and to incorporate this information into their presentations. In other words, not only will presentation performance skills be developed in this course, but also topical research and content design.