Course Description: Designed to help undergraduate students in the sciences communicate effectively and responsively with multiple audiences, from peers and professors to potential employers and the media. This course will push a shift in the students’ understanding of communication: 1) audience-centered, 2) goal oriented, and 3) dynamic. Among the techniques we use are improvisational theater exercises that will help you connect with an audience, pay close and dynamic attention to others, read non-verbal cues, and respond freely without self-consciousness. We also will strongly focus on storytelling as a medium through which this communication shift occurs.

Assignment: Pale Blue Dot Video

Write a final message to humanity to be published upon your death. The goal is to light your audience up, to infuse them with your passion. Show them the universe through your eyes so they can experience the connection you feel. The heart of this video must be a story, the story that illuminates your relationship to science.

  Pale Blue Dot – Writing Exercise
  Pale Blue Dot – Video Outline