I took this class last spring. I am the only foreigner in the class. Since it is Comm 111, so it wasn't that hard. We had 4 speeches for the whole semester. They are introduction, informative, informative and persuasive speech. We also have a lecture class every week. During the non-lecture class, we do pop-up speeches with about 2 minutes of preparation.

There was one time, the instructor wanted us to bring a quarter to the class and put in the cup before we make our speeches and the topic is to convence other classmate to leave this cup of quarters to you. I beat about 20 classmates and won the quarters at the end. So, just be prepared.