Forensics Team

Director of Forensics: Dr. Glenda Treadaway
Office: Walker 122
Phone Numbers: Office-262-2222; Home-963-8743
Office Hours Outside of Regularly Scheduled Meeting Times:
MW - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
TR - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

General Policies

1. Weekly contact with the Director is required. If the weekly meeting falls at a time you cannot attend because of class, work, etc., you are to stop by her office and find out what is happening. Weekly meetings will be held even if they are only for short announcements.

2. You must notify Director of your intent to travel to a particular tournament two weeks in advance. You also must notify the Director of what events you wish to participate in at that particular tournament. (In other words, which events you will have ready by that tournament.) You can cancel your entry into that tournament (for viable reasons) up to the cut offdate set by the host school. However, you cannot add your name or another event due to the way finances are handled at this institution.

3. Conduct at all times during competition, travel, etc. must be professional. Your behavior will reflect on the director and the institution of the program in which you are participating

4. If problems arise between you and other team members, the expectation is that you will handles these situations in an adult like manner. In other words, you will attempt to handle the conflict between yourselves first. If this proves to be ineffective then I should be advised of the situation so that I can mediate in some way

COM 2115 Policies

1. If you are signed up for credit for your participation on the forensics team then you are obligated to be at every meeting.

2. COM 2115 students interested in Individual Events are required to travel to at least two tournaments, the semester you are enrolled. You also must participate in at least four events during that semester.

3. COM 2115 students if interested in Debate are required to travel to at least three tournament during that semester. (E the Fall, travel to the workshop will count as participation in one tournament.)

4. COM 2115 students are expected to meet all of the GENERAL POLICIES noted above as well as the specific policies noted below which apply to your type of participatiHER OF THESE DAYS AT ANY TIME. You may be excused from this obligation for classes only. Parties, dances, visits to parents, friends, etc. are not excuses for not working or competing at the tournament. Failure to work at the tournament will result in no further travel and will reduce your grade one full grade (an A to a B.).
€ Compete in a minimum of two speaking events at a minimum of one tournament during the semester to receive one credit.
€ Compete in a minimum of two speaking events at a minimum of two tournaments during the semester to receive two credits.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to assure that you can participate in enough tournaments to meet this requirement. DO NOT DELAY ATTENDING TOURNAMENTS. We can and will lower student grades for not attending enough tournaments.

COURSE SYLLABUS
DEBATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE FORENSICS
This course involves the theory, preparation, and practice of extensively prepared
forms of debate.

Expectations for the course include the following:
*Attend the meeting each week. Attendance will be taken. You may miss up to 2 meetings during the semester. Each absence beyond that point that is not excused for a strong reason will lower your grade by 1/3 (an A would become an A-). In addition, we expect you to arrive at meetings on time. I will speak with students who are repeatedly tardy. If it is a continued problem, I reserve the right to lower your grade.
*Prepare at least three research assignments. You are expected to prepare at least three research assignments. These assignments can include an affirmative case (written from scratch), a negative case assignment, a disadvantage, topicality positions, etc. you are expected to turn in the research assignments you prepare to your coaches by the due dates established at meetings. You are responsible for finding out when these assignments are due-contact a coach if you do not know. Late assignments will lower your grade by 1/3 (an A would become an A-). Failure to complete an assignment will lower your grade by 1 (an A would become a B.).
*Schedule and attend individual practice and drill sessions. You are expected to practice debate. Arrange practice sessions with your coach and make sure that you show up on time. If you are unable to attend a meeting, please call the coach you were to practice with and tell him or her.
*Assist in the management of tournaments that we host. This means that vou will work from 8:00 a.m. to Midnight. Your work will include competing, getting food, setting up chairs, helping the tab room, etc., but you will work at all hours between 8:00 a.m. and midnight. DO NOT PLAN ANYTHING FOR EITHER OF THESE DAYS AT ANY TIME. You may be excused from this obligation for classes only. Parties, dances, visits to parents, friends, etc. are not excuses for not working or competing at the tournament. Failure to work at the tournament will result in no further travel and will reduce your grade one full grade (an A to a B.).
*Compete in C.E.D.A. debate at a minimum of one tournament during the semester to receive one credit.
*Compete in C.E.D.A. debate at a minimum of two tournaments during the semester to receive two credits.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to assure that you can participate in enough tournaments to meet this requirement. DO NOT DELAY ATTENDING TOURNAMENTS. We can and will lower student grades for not attending enough tournaments. NOTE: we strongly encourage you to participate in an individual event at tournaments, especially Squad Tournaments.

Directing Forensics
Summer 1993

Professor: Dr. Steven B. Hunt
Comm Office, 2nd floor Albany, on campus phone Ext. 7617, LC Box 35
Home 641-6383

BOOKS

REQUIRED: Walter Ulrich, Judging Academic Debate (available L & C bookstore)
Faules Rieke Rhodes, Directing Forensics: Contest and Debate Speaking 2nd ed. (available from Dr. Hunt)
Robert Kemp, Lincoector and assistants
Budgeting and fund raising
Tournament selection
Transportation (driving and Insurance)
Housing and food
Partnerships and event entries, tournament entries, tournament ethics and behavior
Record keeping budgets NFL pts et at
Publicity and public relations
Squad officers and squad meetings

ASSIGNMENT: READ Directing Forensics 145-167 Always be ready to ask questions about handouts and texts. This class is very much open to questions and discussion to followup on any debate theory.

Frldav. August 6 Coaching: Conferences and Practices
A. Individual events
1. Unprepared events: Impromptu, extemp, limited prep
2. Prepared events: oratory, expository, ads, Interp
3. Outlining and drafting speeches or cutting Interps
4. Videotaping
5. The philosophy of constructive criticism
B. Debate
1. Policy and LD strateay sessions Af and Neg
2. Case conferences
3. Practice rounds

Intrasquad competition Practices vs other squads (schools)

ASSIGNMENT: READ Ulrich, Judging Academic Debate

Saturday. August 7 You are all cordially Invited to staff, teachers, directors forensics vs students volleyball softball, et al festivities and institute picnic. We need your help!! THERE WILL BE SATURDAY MORNING INSTITUTE SESSIONS.

Sunday. August 8 A day of rest-Hallelujah!

Monday. August 9 Teaching Debate and Public Speaking
& Judging and Critiquing
Mike Wallmark when available.

A. Research Outlining Types of speech & debate
Logic & reasoning Evidence Case preparation
ethics Cross examination Refutation/rebuttal Speech criticism
B. Debate-ballots, ballot formalities, reasons for decislons, flowsheeting, paradigms, oral critiques
C. I.E. ballots, judging philosophies, critiques

ASSIGNMENT: READ Directing Forensics 255-300 on managing forensics tournaments

Tuesday, August 10 Managing a Forensics Tournament or Being a Critical Consumer of Tournaments

1. Preliminaries dates & arrangements
2. Amenities & facilities
3. Trophies, awards
4. Scheduling and getting help
5. Computer usage
6. Invitations: rules, dates, schedules, housing, food, etc.
7. Extra judging, competent judging, judges instructions
8. Scheduling events, Judges, rooms, systems
9. Tabulating results
10. Preparing results sheets
11. Visitations & PR
12. Publicity
13. Typical tournament problems: parking, locked rooms, late people, lost people, missed entries, Incompetent Judges, Judging errors, Inadequate number of judges

Wednesday & Thursday. August 11 &12 Share Directing Forensics Projects Scheduled as Possible

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, August 11-13 Assist in Judging L&C Workshop
Mock Debate Tournament

Members of the Directing Forensics Class are expected to fully participate in the L&C debate workshop: attend lectures, assist or direct case conferences, critique speech outlines and/or rough drafts of cases, listen to practices, judge and critique, sometimes in association with staff members, sometimes on your own. The experiential portion of this work is a big part of class. The workshop is Intensive. You need to be aware of the time commitment for two weeks for 8-10 hours every day.

Lots of the value of the class is talking with staff members and current acting directors of forensics vis class syllabi, exercises, squad rules, budgets, academic credit, etc. etc.

GRADES: Class is CR/NR unless the student petitions for a grade. CR is based on full and active participation in Directing Forensics LA 548, in L&C Institute activities and on competent completion of a quality class project for directing forensics (see page 5).

Class Projects for Directing Forensics
All those taking Directing Forensics (LA 548) for credit must complete a class project by Monday, August 16th, 1993. This project must have something to do with directing forensics. Its purpose is to demonstrate careful considered work by the student, yet be something which will be us