Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify the principal goals of a given speech and ensure that speeches are organized in order to achieve those goals; distinguish between hearing, listening, and critical listening and determine which techniques assist in gaining maximum critical listening participation from an audience; properly research the content and ideas of the speech to gain support for the ideas that the speaker is presenting and appropriately incorporate those ideas into a speech; outline a speech as a means to develop raw ideas into appropriate presentations and visual aids; and organize a speech that includes introduction, transitions, body of the speech, and conclusion.