The forensics program exists to foster life-long learning skills for competitors. This activity should be an enjoyable learning experience. If you win along the way, that's great, but our goal is learning. We don't compete to win, we compete to learn.
 

 

Intramural Tournament May 8th - Sign up now!

If you’re a Comm 20 student, use your informative and/or persuasive speeches to compete in our end of the semester tournament.

Want to test your debating skills? If you are a Comm 40 student, we invite you to compete in Parliamentary debate.

  • Sign up for one unit of Comm 191A Debate (Code 23654).
  • Sign up for one unit of: Comm 191B Platform speaking (Code 23747).
  • Sign up for one unit of Comm 191 C Oral Interp. (Code 23769).

Intercollegiate Competition
We also field a traveling team that competes intercollegiately. This involves weekend travel to tournaments throughout California, the United States, and occasionally the world - (China, Portugal, Canada, Czech Republic and Italy so far!) Sign up for 191A, 191B, or 191C and earn a unit for every tournament that you attend. For more information, stop by one of our practice sessions (Tues. or Thurs. 3:00-5:00 in HGH 229 or drop by our office HGH 214).

Judging
Too busy to travel? Make a difference, be a judge. We offer:

  • Comm 91Judge Training (Code 20466, 20467, 20468)
    • 1 unit credit/noncredit
    • Learn to judge competitive speaking events.
  • Comm 191Judging (21596)
    • 1 unit credit/noncredit (up to 3 units)
    • Judge local area high school tournaments and/or SJSU intramural competitions
 

September - San Francisco State University

Octofinalist in Novice Debate
Tyler Wing, Chris Palumbo, Jagdeep Singh

October - Santa Rosa Tournament

Robert Montross and Tyler Wing - 2nd place novice parli (8-1)
6th Parli Speaker - Robert Montross
Robert Montross - finalist open dramatic interp, finalist novice extemp

Carl Flynn - finalist novice extemp

Angelina Faggett - 1st open prose

Pictures from Tournaments

Kevin Twouhy Invitational