Credit: 1.0 | Prerequisite: Oral Interpretation or Instructor Approval

This performance-based course is a meeting time for the Charger’s speech and debate team. All students in the course must compete in speech and debate tournaments with the team throughout the year. Along with competing, students will study rhetoric and the philosophy of communication and learn how to express themselves in the most effective and artistic ways. Emphasis is placed upon the selection and analysis of literature, script preparation, reducing performance anxiety, and developing the vocal and physical delivery skills necessary to achieve the communicative intent of literature in performance. Before taking this course, students must take Oral Interpretation or receive permission to enroll from the instructor and school administration.