Presenting Your Research: A crash course for international scholars (8 class meetings starting 1/31)

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Tuesday January 31, 2017
      11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location: 314 Skiles Hall
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  • Fee(s):
    Free!
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Contact

Katherine Samford
Languate Institute
katherine.samford@pe.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: This 4-week course is designed to help international graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are preparing for upcoming oral presentations about their research

Full Summary: No summary paragraph submitted.

4-week short course | Tuesdays & Thursdays, January 31 through February 23, 2017 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Skiles 314 

This free 4-week crash course is designed to help international graduate students and postdocs prepare for upcoming oral presentations about their research.  The course will focus on communication clarity, including organization, delivery (phrasing, pausing, intonation, stress, and vowel and consonant sounds), and non-verbal communication.The class will meet two times per week, in addition to one-to-one tutorial sessions with the instructor to target individual pronunciation and oral communication challenges.This course is intended for those who already have specific research they are working on and will likely present in the near future, but is open to any Georgia Tech international graduate student or post-doc scholar.

Instructor: Katherine Samford | Lecturer and Campus Coordinator | Georgia Tech Language Institute | Katherine.Samford@pe.gatech.edu

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Invited Audience
Undergraduate students, Graduate students
Categories
Career/Professional development, Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium, Training/Workshop
Keywords
grad-ctl, postdoc-ctl, graduate students, CETL
Status
  • Created By: Kate Williams
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jan 14, 2017 - 9:56am
  • Last Updated: Apr 13, 2017 - 5:13pm