The California State University, Long Beach Forensics Team competes in speech and debate competitions at the local, state, and national levels.
Beach Forensics is a nationally competitive speech and debate team. We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5:30 in Peterson Hall (PH1-209) for administration and team business and practice in the Faculty Offices (FO4-153-158).
If you are interested in joining the team, please email any of our coaches for more information, or check out our website at www.beachforensics.com.
Director of Forensics: Nicolas Russell
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Director of Individual Events: Reyna Velarde
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Director of Debate: Bill Neesen
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Our mission is to promote forensic activity (a.k.a. Speech and Debate) among Long Beach students and the community at large in order to empower individuals from all backgrounds to develop into competent and courageous communicators.
Public Speaking Skills
Argumentation Skills
Interpersonal Communication Skills
Critical Thinking Skills
Intercultural Communication Skills
Responsibility
Punctuality
Professionalism
Networking
Writing and Speaking Really Fast (Mostly in Debate)
Writing and Speaking Persuasively (Both Debate and IEs*)
*IEs = Individual Events in which one person competes, as opposed to Parliamentary Debate in which 2-person teams compete