594 and 595 Courses for Spring 2012
For help in enrolling in these courses, please contact the Undergraduate Advisor.
594 Great Presentations
Enroll Code: TBA
Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
Time: TR 1100-1250
Location: Phelps 1401
Units: 4 units
Class Webpage: n/a
Description:
The Great Presentations class is an opportunity for you to learn and practice the most important elements of formal presentations. We will talk about how to construct a logical and interesting presentation story, the best use of visuals, transitioning through the slides, fluent delivery and connecting with the audience, timing, coordination of movement with content, and key linguistic elements such as volume, pitch range, intonation, and ends of utterances. We will also look at job talks, interview sessions, and the art of asking and responding to questions. Our guiding principle throughout the course will be the refinement of each participant's individual speaking style and manner.
What else will happen in the class? Students will give individual talks of varying lengths followed by detailed feedback from the instructor and helpful comments from the group. We will videotape our class presentations and (hopefully) post them on a protected website for student reference and review. Students will also meet individually with the instructor during the course to discuss personal style and delivery.
Please feel free to contact Janet directly with any questions (kayfetz@cs.ucsb.edu).
595N Social Networks Seminar
Enroll Code: TBA
Instructor: Linda Petzold, Ambuj Singh & Xifeng Yan
Time: Fridays (beginning April 6th) 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: HFH 1132
Units: 2 units
Class Webpage: n/a
Description:
The proliferation of social media, forums, and networks has witnessed the power of networks that propagate news, opinions, and stances on a scale and speed that have never been seen before.Unfortunately, due to the lack of appropriate metrics and models, we are not able to characterize, quantify, and predict persuasion that is occurring everywhere in the social-cyber space.In this course, we plan to explore ideas such as: (1) To what degree persuasion is effective over which kinds of networks, (2) How competitive campaigns with conflicting views evolve in a network, (3) How to differentiate the persuasive power of the different communication and social structures.
