"speaking course" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a course in which students improve their ability to communicate orally. For example, "I'm taking a speaking course to help me become a better public speaker."
Though all of the English courses he had taken until that point had been traditional college preparatory ones, his mother said, he had taken "broadcast communications" -- a writing and speaking course that his school considers college-prep English -- during his senior spring, so that he might get a jump on preparing for his planned career as a television meteorologist.
In my public speaking course we are asked to bring in three objects and identify what they mean to us.
He took a Dale Carnegie public speaking course and he learned that he could, in fact, speak in front of a group of people.
Of course, accounting, marketing, a public speaking course — even classes between different heating and cooling systems.
It's not like a public speaking course, but you do learn how to speak in a clear voice.
Penn State's first "reticence course," taught in 1965, consisted of 16 students who were going to drop out rather than take the university's required speaking course.
In the listening and speaking courses a topic based approach is adopted.
Liu and Jackson (2008) investigated Chinese EFL learners' FLA with a participant group of 547 university students required to take English listening and speaking courses.
The changes included additional English listening and speaking courses, using an on-line English listening test system, using supplementary on-line audio-visual listening materials, and having a regular (weekly) English listening quiz.
As a result, some go to great lengths to prepare, sometimes by taking public speaking courses or hiring media trainers.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
