Building Oral Communication Skills through Current Events

Discussing current events and news stories with confidence and ease requires clear, concise, and effective speaking skills. The ability to understand complex ideas, summarize information, and share your own perspective on the topic are equally essential to having meaningful discussions with many different types of people. Through a variety of media sources, genres, and topics, you will learn conversational strategies to initiate and maintain discussions about current events and news occurring in the local and global communities.