The Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center (TLPDC), the Graduate School, and the TTU Ethics Center have once again partnered to offer the TLPDC Ethics Lunch Series during the Fall 2014 semester.
Pre-registration is required and available on the TLPDC website (http://www.tlpd.ttu.edu/). Lunch will be provided.
Title: “All the World’s a Stage: Acting Training as a Secret Weapon for Effective Communication”
Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Presenters: Drs. Linda Donahue and Bob Chanda
Location: Room 151 - Audio/Video Instructional Lab (AVI) Library
Summary:
Effective communication, one of the TTU’s ethical principles, has been a challenging task in academic, professional, and personal life. This TLPDC Ethics Lunch session will focus on the use of acting techniques to strengthen communication skills for faculty, supervisors, and teaching assistants. The presentation provides a special emphasis on nonverbal communication, which is often a key to creating favorable impressions in order to project authority, competence, and a sense of self-confidence. The presenters will focus on a demonstration of acting techniques that are designed to sensitize participants to the communicative possibilities of these nonverbal behaviors and could be applied in various disciplines and settings.
