Build your Political Discourse and Debate Skills la salle campus barcelona

Be an Innovative Thinker: Build your Political Discourse and Debate Skills

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Syllabus
First Week (June 30 - July 4)
  • Discourse Analysis and Introduction to Political Debate
  • Principles of Argumentation
    • Introduction to the fundamental structures of argumentation and presentation of the most common fallacies
  • Basic Analysis of Political Discourse
    • Application of argumentation principles to the analysis of both current and historical political speeches
  • Debate Practice, on topics in four main areas
    • State
    • Justice
    • Freedom
    • Democracy
  • Visit to the Parliament of Catalonia
Second Week (July 7 - July 11)
  • Creating your political discourse
  • Rhetoric and Parliamentary Discourse:
    • Introduction to rhetorical techniques for text writing and effective oral expression
  • Autonomous source research:
    • Explanation of criteria for assessing the reliability of various information sources
  • Daily discourse development and feedback
  • Debate with an experienced politician
  • Final event: discourse presentation