Course detail

Culture of Speech and the Generation of Texts

FEKT-XPC-KPTAcad. year: 2025/2026

Course offers theoretical introduction to communication studies, etiquette, formal presentation togehter with practical communication training, rhetoric and presentation training. Part of the course deals with standards and regulations of written personal documents as well education texts.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

The subject knowledge on the secondary school level is required.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Requirements for completion of a course supossed minimally 80% sucess in final test and realisation at least one presentation in 10 minute duration.Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every.
80% of presence in lectures and seminaries. The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

Basic knowledge of formality protocol, elergement of communication and presentation skills, often used in the education practice.
Students will be able to explain basic terms of Communiaction Psychology, aplly theoretical knowledge to actual situation as well as to assess performance efficacy of their colegues from seminary. Students define subject of Communication Psychology, list prototypical interpretation of nonverbal gestures, analyse communication strategies of complex situations.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hierhold, E.: Rétorika a prezentace. Praha, Grada Publishing, 2005.
Khelerová V.: Komunikační dovednosti manažera. Praha, Grada 1995.
Lewis, D.: Tajná řeč těla. Praha, Victoria Publishing 1993.
Pease, L.: Řeč těla. Praha , Portál 2005.
Špačková, A.: Moderní rétorika. Praha, Grada Publishing, 2003.
Vybíral, Z.: Psychologie lidské komunikace. Praha, Portál 2000.

Recommended reading

Capponi, V., Novák, T.:Sám sobě mluvčím – Jak prezentovat sám sebe. Praha, Grada Publishing 1994.
Cmíralová, J.: Učte se mluvit. Brno, naklaDATELství 1992.
Dohalská, M. a kol.: Mluvím, mluvíš, mluvíme – kapitoly z moderní rétoriky. Praha, Horizont 1985.
Guth-Jarkovský, J.: Společenský katechismus. Praha, Československý spisovatel 1992.
Kohout, J.: Rétorika – Umění mluvit a jednat s lidmi. Praha, Management Press 1995.
Machálek, J.: Společenské chování. Petrklíč, Praha 2000.
Morris, D.: Body Talk., Praha, Ivo Železný 1999.
Novák, T., Capponi, V.: Asertivně do života. Praha, Grada Publishing, 2004.
Praško, J., Prašková, H.: Asertiviotu proti stresu. Praha, Grada Publishing, 1996.
Sampsonová, E.: Jak si vytvořit působivý image. Managment Press, Praha 1996.
Smejkal, V.: Lexikon společenského chování pro úspěšné managery a podnikatele. Praha, Grada Publishing 1993, 2002.
Spillaneová, M.: Image muže. Praha, Ikar 1995.
Wieke, T.: Rétorika v praxi, Praha REBO Productions, 2005.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-AMT Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-APE Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme BPC-AUD Bachelor's

    specialization AUDB-ZVUK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization AUDB-TECH , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme BPC-BTB Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-ECT Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-IBE Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-MET Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-SEE Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-TLI Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPA-BIO Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPAD-BIO Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme MPC-AUD Master's

    specialization AUDM-TECH , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization AUDM-ZVUK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme MPC-BIO Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-BTB Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-EAK Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-EEN Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-EKT Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-EVM Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-IBE Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-KAM Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-MEL Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-SVE Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-TIT Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-NCP Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme MPC-NCP Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-EMU Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Information and the modes of passing it to the listeners.
Communication models
Components of communication
Solution to basic models of pedagogical situations
Models of assertiveness skills
How to cope with criticism and assertive education
Verbal expression from the point of view of psychology
Significance of the voice and hearing in the rhetoric
Speaker personality
Preparation of a lecture, discussion, paper, statement, report
Text as a form of pedagogical communication
Theoretical issues of a text to make it intelligible.
Strategy of generation of a text to make it intelligible.

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Assessment of properties of a text to the individual criteria of intelligibility
Training of strategies pointing to the increase of intelligibility
Training of didactical transformation of various types of existing texts
Training of self-reliant generation of highly intelligible texts and its assessment
Registration of the student