fullscreen background
Skip to main content

Winter Quarter

Winter Registration Opens Nov 30
shopping cart icon0

Courses


« Back to Professional & Personal Development

COM 52 — Presentations: Find Your Authentic Voice

Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Lee Eisler-Duvall, Gary Grossman
Duration: 8 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Jan 20—Mar 10
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Wednesdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—9:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $820
   
Refund Deadline: Jan 22
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 24
  
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Winter
Day: Wednesdays
Duration: 8 weeks
Time: 6:00—9:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 20—Mar 10
Unit(s): 2
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $820
 
Refund Deadline: Jan 22
 
Instructor(s): Lee Eisler-Duvall, Gary Grossman
 
Enrollment Limit: 24
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
 
Each person has a unique speaking voice. This experiential workshop uses business coaching and acting techniques to help speakers unlock their natural talents and find their authentic voice. You will learn to claim the stage, project a sense of presence, and, most of all, truly engage an audience. The course will offer a lively combination of speech mapping and writing techniques as well as skill-building vocal and physical exercises that will help you find new ways of turning nervousness into positive energy. You will present at least three formal and informal speeches, beginning with personal topics and then moving into your specific areas of interest. Step by step, you will accumulate the eight tools of great delivery, adding dynamics through such elements as story, metaphor, vocal tone, and the use of space. Rehearsal techniques that allow you to truly know your material (without memorizing it) will be rigorously practiced.

Advanced-level proficiency in spoken English is required.

LEE EISLER-DUVALL
Founder and CEO, Presence Delivered

Lee Eisler-Duvall specializes in public presentation, storytelling, and improvisation in the work world. Her company focuses on developing each person’s unique voice and personal presence. She has been a professor at CSU Long Beach and Simon Fraser University.

GARY GROSSMAN
Independent Theater Professional

Gary Grossman is the senior presence coach at Presence Delivered and has taught theater and improvisation at Academy of Art University, San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking, and the Marin Shakespeare Company. He received an MFA in theater from CSU Long Beach.