Persuasive Storytelling
Persuasive Storytelling: An Oratory Lab Imagine a gymnasium designed to increase, not your physical health, but your fitness as a speaker. The Ancient Greeks called it “progymnasmata,” a progression of fourteen exercises that began with storytelling, advanced through reasoning and ceremonial speechmaking, and only then, in lesson 14, allowed students to argue a thesis. This classical approach aligns with modern brain science: the most essential tool of persuasion is story. Like the progymnasmata, each class session in Persuasive Storytelling will feature a new speaking exercise building on the previous one. We’ll practice the rhetorical arts of pitching, advocating, and interviewing, but our primary focus will be on delivery; how we use the voice and body to captivate an audience and move them to respond. This course meets the Transformation Skills Requirement of the Conflict Transformation Academic Cluster./
Persuasive Storytelling: An Oratory Lab Imagine a gymnasium designed to increase, not your physical health, but your fitness as a speaker. The Ancient Greeks called it “progymnasmata,” a progression of fourteen exercises that began with storytelling, advanced through reasoning and ceremonial speechmaking, and only then, in lesson 14, allowed students to argue a thesis. This classical approach aligns with modern brain science: the most essential tool of persuasion is story. Like the progymnasmata, each class session in Persuasive Storytelling will feature a new speaking exercise building on the …Read more
The course was both fun and interesting, despite the almost daily homework. The skills learned really help improve one's ability to public speak. Daily assignments are not too difficult, just a log and a video recording.
This class is fun and easy but we have homework almost everyday for it. The homework is locked until the day it's due but it takes like 10 minutes total to complete. Honestly, it's a very fun class and i feel more confident in my speaking skills!
This course was very helpful for my public speaking skills and really improved my confidence and articulation! The homework every day was to write a log and film a speech/story which sometimes was tedious but overall helped my skills improve a lot.
I wanted to improve my public speaking skills, and this is the perfect class for that. Ben is super accommodating and he made the class really fun. Would definitely recommend! Got to genuinely know my peers as well.