CSUS DEBATE TEAM

Greetings!

Welcome to the CSU-Sacramento Debate Team's Home Page! We're delighted that you have been able to join us. It is our hope to provide you with some basic information about the mission of the Debate Team here at Sac State, some important search engines for doing research on the Web, a link or two to some resources on the Web for the current semester's debate topic, as well as links to some of our favorite and most productive Web sites. Thanks for stopping by! Comments about this web page can be sent via email to the Director of Debate at CSU-Sacramento, Kristen Tudor .

Mission and Philosophy of the CSU-Sacramento Debate Team

The Debate Team at CSU-Sacramento is funded by the University's Instructionally Related Activities Fund and is designed to provide students with training in critical thinking, research and presentational skills through competition in intercollegiate debate. The team is open to all CSUS students regardless of prior experience.

The Debate Team competes in the Cross Examination Debate Association and is associated with the Northern California Forensics Association. The Debate Team is committed to and has a long history of educational and competitive excellence and strives to provide students with a challenging educational experience. We compete in tournaments throughout Northern California, the Pacific Northwest, and, when appropriate, across the country. Students on the team are expected to maintain a respectable grade point average and make steady progress toward graduation.

We are proud to have had two All American Debate Team and three Academic All American Debate Team awards presented to our students in the past three years. Since 1987, the team has had students advance to the elimination rounds at the CEDA National Championships including teams in the Quarter finals in 1988 and 1989. In 1993, a CSUS team ranked fourth of 225 competing teams after the eight preliminary rounds at the National Tournament.

Though we strive for competitive excellence, we seek to challenge each student to make the most of their skills through hard work and a commitment to highly ethical standards of argumentation. Please contact the Director of Debate Kristen Tudor at CSUS for more information about the team.