Do you envy the great oratorical talents to keep the fire talking, and inspire their audience enthusiasm and motivation? Then Rhetoric guaranteed profession for you. Example, you can analyze President Kennedy's famous speech "Ich bin ein Berliner " to Germans on Rudolph Wilde Platz in 1963 or Ronald Reagan's challenging speech to the Soviet Union's then-President Mikhail Gorbachev on "Tear down this wall! ".

The best speeches are written by those who have mastered the rhetoric and can draw comparisons crisscross of contemporary and past, include short stories in the speech and still maintain the red thread. A good speech is a speech where you remember the essence and which is often done for a quote afterwards. In any case, as the above two examples.

Focus and interpretation is how you as a rhetorician and speaker conveys your message on the error-free and intended manner. It can also be an educational context or how a political spin doctor advises a politician to communicate its message across most effectively.

Rhetoric is communication in both speech and writing, so you will also learn how texts should be prepared for the recipient gets the intended experience. It may be that the emphasis should be placed on a formal tone, graphic and visual elements, or any other form of dissemination of content. Rhetoric is mainly theoretical training, but the subject opens up good opportunities for practical application of the learned theory, as it inherently is needed to test his skills as orator and conveys a message.

The training also includes a significant element of the story in which you learn about the development of rhetoric (art of speech) from the ancient Greeks sophistry of medieval philosophical approach to rhetoric, and to today's democratic structures in which a hot topic is "free speech " and the way to express themselves rhetorically on. The first 2 1/4 years of the Bachelor's degree is compulsory basic studies, and in the last 3/4 years you have the opportunity to choose among the electives offered.

Job Opportunities

Teacher, advertising staff, speech coach, information officer, copywriter, public relations officer, communications officer.

Special admission requirements

Danish A, English B, History B or History of Ideas B or Contemporary History B. Rhetoric also requires good language skills and a highly developed talent for languages, but do not worry you gain many skills during the first year of the Bachelor's degree.