University of Duhok Academic Debate Course Book 2013-2014 PDF

**University of Duhok** **Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences/ Department of Geology** **Academic Debate (Theory & Practice) / Course Book 2013-2014/ First year** **Theory:** 1. **Introduction to the Academic Debate** 2. **Debate as a type of Argumentation** 3. **Aims of the Argumen...

**University of Duhok** **Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences/ Department of Geology** **Academic Debate (Theory & Practice) / Course Book 2013-2014/ First year** **Theory:** 1. **Introduction to the Academic Debate** 2. **Debate as a type of Argumentation** 3. **Aims of the Argumentative Styles** 4. **What is Debate? and History of Debates** 5. **Why is Debate Essential?** 6. **The Challenge of Running a Debate in Class** 7. **A Word about Trivium Education** 8. **What are the Benefits of Debate?** 9. **What is the Debate Topic? Examples of Debate Topics** 10. **Types of Debates** 11. **The Team Line and The Roles of the Speakers** 12. **Rebuttal, Logic and Picking the Important Points** 13. **Strategy for The Individual Speaker (Matter, Method and Manner)** 14. **Debate Strategies** 15. **Constructing Arguments** **Practical topics:** 16. **Geology Topics:** 17. **First lecture:** 18. **Introduction** - **What is geology and why is important?** - **Students are making small paragraphs on geology and presenting them in the class.** **Second lecture:** - **Introduction of pollution** - **Types of pollution** - **Reasons of pollution** - **How do we solve the pollution problem?** - **Making students in to 6 groups then each group of students are presenting their ideas.** - **General idea of planning and geology.** - **How can we link geology with planning?** - **What is planning?** - **The process of planning** - **Home work! Writing one page on a subject that the students are interested in and presenting it in the class.** **Fourth lecture** **Discussion on the corruption and the current situation of Arab revolutions** **Fifth lecture** - **A presentation by the lecturer on how to write a report.** - **Taking students' ideas and giving them home work by dividing them in to (6 ) groups.** - **Giving students the following topics:** 1. **Why economy and administration are important?** 2. **Arts and sport.** 3. **Why laws and regulations are important?** 4. **Strategic planning** 5. **Geology** 6. **Education** 7. **Any idea from students is acceptable.** **The students will choose the topics that they are interested in.** **Lecturer,** **Mrs. Aihan Jamal Taha** **The repertoire of the school of planning**