Crash Course – Great Speeches

Crash Course is a one-hour College of Arts & Letters sample class presented on home football Fridays!

Each session features an A&L professor leading a class pulled directly from some of the most popular and riveting courses on campus. Alumni, friends, prospective students, parents, and anyone else on campus are welcome to participate in these explorations of fascinating topics.

Course topics this year will focus on generative artificial intelligence, living a good life, football in America, creating compelling characters through voiceover, sports economics, and more!

All lectures begin at 2:30 p.m. in 155 DeBartolo Hall. No ticket is required.

Great Speeches
with John Duffy (English)

This course examines the rhetoric of great speakers and speeches throughout history. In studying speeches by such figures as Pericles, Abraham Lincoln, Sojourner Truth, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and others, we seek to understand what makes a great speech. Why do some speeches resonate long after they were delivered, while others are quickly and perhaps mercifully forgotten? We consider the performance of the speaker, the artistry of the language, the psychology of the audience, and the historical context in which the speech was delivered.

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