CTL 25SI: Navigating Stanford: Optimizing Your Undergraduate Experience
Navigating Stanford aims to put you on the path to making the most out of your exciting journey at Stanford. Covering various aspects of student life--from the best places to eat and study, to how to develop meaningful and lasting relationships with professors--this course is intended to get Stanford¿s newest and youngest students thinking about the ways they can make the most out of the next four years. Featuring a range of guest speakers and themes, this class will give incoming freshmen the opportunity to encounter a diversity of experiences and perspectives from the people who know Stanford best: its students.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Allen, D. (PI)
CTL 53: Working Smarter
College-level strategies and skills in time management, reading, speaking, writing, and test preparation. Students explore learning preferences to develop strategies in different academic settings.
Terms: Sum
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Townsend, L. (PI)
CTL 100: The Next Three Years: Making the Most of Stanford
This course is designed for frosh approaching the end of year one at Stanford. The goal is to help you think more broadly and more deeply about the remainder of your Stanford undergraduate education, reflecting on what you have learned so far. Weekly meetings will consist of presentations and discussions, emphasizing an integrated approach to making the most of Stanford. The course will include guest lecturers and background readings. Aspects of a student's life that will be discussed include coursework, residential life, personal health and development, extracurricular groups, different types of relationships (friends and close others, teacher-student, advisor-advisee, ...
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This course is designed for frosh approaching the end of year one at Stanford. The goal is to help you think more broadly and more deeply about the remainder of your Stanford undergraduate education, reflecting on what you have learned so far. Weekly meetings will consist of presentations and discussions, emphasizing an integrated approach to making the most of Stanford. The course will include guest lecturers and background readings. Aspects of a student's life that will be discussed include coursework, residential life, personal health and development, extracurricular groups, different types of relationships (friends and close others, teacher-student, advisor-advisee, peer mentoring), community and public service, and career development. The course should build your knowledge of and ability to use the many resources at Stanford designed to assist you in all these areas, as well as connecting you with the experiences of other students, helping you to peer into your own future.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 1
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
CTL 105: Voice and Articulation Intensive for Non-Native English Speakers
Workshop focusing on exercises designed to help foreign students improve their articulation and delivery in English. Work includes breath, sound, enunciation, melody, and colloquialism.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 1-2
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 115: Voice Workshop (CTL 215)
Focus is on breath, voice production, expansion of vocal range and stamina, and clarity of articulation. Geared toward public speaking including presentations, lectures, and job talks. May be taken in conjunction with CTL 117.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 1-2
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 117: The Art of Effective Speaking (CTL 217)
The principles and practice of effective oral communication. Through formal and informal speaking activities, students develop skills framing and articulating ideas through speech. Strategies for speaking extemporaneously, preparing and delivering multimedia presentations, formulating persuasive arguments, refining critical clarity of thought, and enhancing general facility and confidence in oral self-expression.
Terms: Aut, Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 118: Public Speaking: Romancing the Room
A practical approach to the art of public speaking. Emphasis is on developing skills in speech types including impromptu, personal experience, interviewing, demonstration, persuasive, and special occasion. Materials include videotape, texts of famous speeches, and a final dinner program of speeches. Students evaluate presentations by others. $55 materials fee.
Terms: Sum
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Units: 3
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Wagstaffe, J. (PI)
CTL 119: Oral Communication Tutor Teaching Practicum
Seminar. For students with a strong background in public speaking who wish to train as public speaking tutors for CTL's Oral Communication Program. Readings, exercises, and supervised teaching refine speaking skills. Preparation to serve as a peer tutor in a variety of academic disciplines. Prerequisite: application and consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 1-3
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Allen, D. (PI)
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Yeager, L. (PI)
CTL 120: Peer Tutor Training
Goal is to help students become effective peer tutors for course material already mastered by articulating aims; developing practical tutoring skills including strategies for drop-in sessions; observing experienced tutors; discussing reading assignments; role playing; and reflecting on experiences as a peer tutor intern. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
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Units: 1
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Randazzo, T. (PI)
CTL 125: From the Page to the Stage: The Performance of Literature
The oral interpretation of literature as performance art and mode of literary analysis. Focus is on contemporary and local expression including topics such as the Spoken Word Collective at Stanford, the ensemble performance of short works of fiction by San Francisco's Word for Word Performing Arts Company, and the storytelling art of Awele Makeba which combines theater, oral history, and music. No performance experience necessary.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
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