After successful completion of the course, students are able to generate an abstract for a prentation, to plan and design the presentation, and finally to perform the presentation. Moreover, discussing presentations of others will be trained.

Presentation and discussion of the diploma thesis concepts and training for presenting scientific results strategies for a short talk (10-15min) and plenary lectures (30-60 min) communication and rhetoric - the basics handling questions from the auditorium giving feedback without being annoying After giving a short talk (about 20 min)related to the diploma thesis, rhetoric aspects, slide layout and composition of the talk are discussed in the group. Presentations are recorded on video and handed to the student.

lecture, group discussions, presenting, listening and observing

• participation in introductionary lectures E1 and E2 of LVA 164.251 (will be accounted if done before)
• participation in introductionary lecture E3
• participation at a minimum of 7 presentation dates
• delivery of the abstract
• performing the presentation
• discussion/feedback of a colleague´s presentation