Course detail
Presentation skills
FEKT-MPC-PZDAcad. year: 2020/2021
The course is focused on key skills and language needed to give impressive presentations in English, which are required both in the academic setting and in companies. The course covers individual stages from planning to delivering a presentation and handling questions successfully. Both theoretical and practical aspects are included. Students are provided with advice for giving presentations. They discuss theoretical aspects of the core structure of a presentation, become acquainted with signposting language, and consequently they have an opportunity to put the acquired skills and language that they have learned into practice. Marginally, the course also offers an insight into the issue of applying for a job and the job interview. Throughout the course students deepen their knowledge of the English language.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
On completion of the course students will have mastered their presentations skills and they will have improved their skill of communication and listening comprehension in English.
Students will:
- be able to plan, structure and deliver their presentations
- have mastered signposting language necessary for their presentations
- be familiar with techniques that bring presentations alive
- be able to handle questions with confidence, clarify meaning, soften disagreements
- be prepared for a job interview
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Teaching methods include seminars.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Classified credit
Students must fulfil the tasks assigned throughout the course and pass the final test in order to obtain the classified credit.
The number and types of tasks (particularly presentations) and the way of their delivery will be specified by the teacher at the beginning of the course.
If a student has not fulfilled a minimum of 80 % of all required tasks, he/she will not obtain the classified credit.
The tasks and the final test are based on the material discussed throughout the course.
Students must earn a minimum of 50 % of the total points in order to pass the subject of MPC-PZD.
Course curriculum
1) Introduction to the course, introducing oneself, a company or an institution
2) Theoretical aspects of preparing and practising presentations
3) Structuring a presentation
4) Introducing a presentation
5) Signposting language in delivering a message
6) Using visual aids
7) Concluding a presentation
8) Bringing a presentation alive
9) Handling questions
10) Applying for a job, a job interview
11) Revision of presentation strategies: individual presentations
12) Individual presentations
13) Semester test
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The seminars are compulsory. Missed lessons will be handled individually by the teacher and compensated by the student according to the teacher’s instructions.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MPC-KAM Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1) Introduction to the course, introducing oneself, a company or an institution
2) Theoretical aspects of preparing and practising presentations
3) Structuring a presentation
4) Introducing a presentation
5) Signposting language in delivering a message
6) Using visual aids
7) Bringing a presentation alive
8) Concluding a presentation
9) Handling questions
10) Formal correspondence
11) Applying for a job
12) Revision of presentation strategies, individual presentations
13) Semester test
Elearning