China Debate

Academy

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Students  from  schools  across  China  will  participate  in  an  annual  Summer  debate  training  program  an  school  competition

Located in Beijing July 22-30, 2013

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Students Will: • Learn  the  discipline  of  debate  

• Engage  in  disciplined  dialogue  

• Research  and  weigh  evidence  within  and  across  subjects  

• Learn  to  distinguish  fact  from  opinion  

• Present  well-‐considered  arguments    

• Develop  strong  critical  thinking  skills  

• Gain  greater  self-‐confidence  and  the  ability  to  present  ideas  clearly  

• Develop  skills  most  favorably  viewed  by  U.S.  admissions  staff  

“According to the Wall Street Journal, college admissions directors are relying less on grade point averages and standardized test scores, and are relying more on success in academically related extracurricular activities such as speech and debate."

--Prof. Minh Luong, Forensics and College Admissions, Yale University

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Faculty – Professor Alfred Charles Snider University Of Vermont

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Alfred C. Snider:

is the Edwin W.

Lawrence

Professor of

Forensics at the University of Vermont. He

has degrees from Brown University,

Emerson College, and the University of

Kansas. HE teaches courses in debate,

argumentation, persuasion and rhetorical

analysis. He is the Director of the World

Debate Institute and the Lawrence Debate

Union.

Dr. Snider has spent over forty years promoting debate and critical communication as an alternative to violence and conflict. He has done formal debate training in forty countries and has trained debaters from over forty-five nations at the World Debate Institute’s sessions in the USA, Korea, Qatar, Iraq, Cameroon and Slovenia. He has directed the debate program at international conferences in Turkey, Estonia, Qatar and Slovenia attended by scholars from over thirty-five nations.

Bojana Skrt: Director ZIP (National Debate Program of Slovenia), three times WSDC EFL World Champion coach, 2010 ESL WSDC Champion coach, founder of International Debate Academy Slovenia.

Four debate coaches will also join the summer 2013 program and be assigned to work with debate teams.

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http://www.iep.ucr.edu/dates-fees/payment.html

Fee: TBD - includes 8-day debate program in Beijing; does not include room/board which will be paid by each student to our host Chinese university (estimated cost: $150 USD); plus transportation to Beijing.

"At the high point of their 2011/12 season, The University of Vermont

was ranked seventh in the world by the International Debate Education

Association, just behind Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale and

ahead of the likes of London School of Economics, Harvard, and

Stanford, all in an elite top thirty among hundreds of competing

institutions."

--Vermont Quarterly Magazine

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TIMES   MONDAY  July  22   TUESDAY  JULY  23   WEDNESDAY  JULY  24   THURSDAY  JULY  25  

8:45     Morning  assembly  mandatory   Morning  assembly  mandatory   Morning  assembly  mandatory  

MORNING   ARRIVALS  

 

 

9:00  Lecture:  Public  speaking  

10:00  Exercises:  Public  speaking  

12:00  Content  electives:    

8  debate  topics  will  be  identified  

 

 

 

9:00  Lecture:  Argumentation  

11:00  Exercises:  Argumentation  

 

 

 

9:00  Lecture:  Proposition  

10:30  Exercises:  Proposition  cases  

12:00  Content  electives:  Select  from  8  topics  

 

 

LUNCH     13:00-‐15:00   13:00-‐1500   13:00-‐15:00  

AFTERNOON   ARRIVALS    

15:00  Debate  electives:  1.  Roles  of  speakers;  2.  Preparation  for  debates;  3.  Using  examples;  4.  Points  of  information;  5.  Prepare  a  1st  speech;  6.  Refutation;  7.  Build  a  prop  case;  8.  Note  taking;  9.  Reply  speech  

1600  Announce  debate  &  prep  

1730  Debate  &  critique  

 

 

 

15:00  Content  electives:  from  8  topics  

16:00  Announce  debate  &  prep  

17:30  Debate  &  critique  

 

 

 

15:00  Debate  electives:  To  be  announced  

16:00  Announce  debate  &  prep  

17:30  Debate  &  critique  

 

 

DINNER   19:00   19:00   19:00   19:00  

EVENING   20:00  Introduction  to  the  program  and  debate  format;  Demo  debate  

21:00  Country  exhibition      

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TIMES   FRIDAY  JULY  26   SATURDAY  JULY  27   SUNDAY  JULY  28   MONDAY  JULY  29  

8:45   Morning  assembly  mandatory   Morning  assembly  mandatory   Morning  assembly  mandatory   Morning  assembly  mandatory  

MORNING    

9:00  Lecture:  Opposition  

10:30  Exercises:  Opposition  

 

 

 

9:00  Lecture:  Points  of  information  

10:00  Exercises:  PoIs  

11:00  Lecture:  Motions  

12:00  Exercises:  Motions  

 

 

 

9:00  Round  One  prepared  

11:00  Round  Two  prepared  

 

 

9:00  Round  Five  prepared  

11:00  Round  Six  prepared  

 

LUNCH   13:00   13:00   13:00   13:00  

AFTERNOON   Free  afternoon   15:00  Announcement  of  debate  and  prep  

17:00  Debate  and  critique  

 

 

14:00  Announce  motion  

15:00  Round  Three  

16:30  Announce  motion  

17:30  Round  Four  

15:00  Semifinals  

THBT  Topic  to  be  determined  17:00  Finals  

THBT  Topic  to  be  determined  

18:00  Closing  ceremony  

DINNER   19:00   19:00   19:00   19:00  

EVENING    

20:00  Electives:  Topics  to  be  determined  How  to  make  your  arguments  more  important;  more  to  be  announced.  

22:00  Demo  debate,  World  Universities  Debate  Championship  format  

 

 

20:00  Register  all  for  tournament  

   

20:00  Farewell  party  

REGISTRATION -

Students should contact their school for details.