Provides suggestions for teaching ethics including such issues as ethical standards, ethical values, and quality of ethics. (PD)

Argues that secondary communication courses are a likely and promising forum for peace education. Offers ideas for content development. (PD)

Weaver Award winning speech communication instructor Craig Streff believes the most important goals of his interpersonal communication instruction are a strong cognitive and affective base, without which practical interpersonal skills are not likely to be developed. Given this overview, what he considers to be the most significant points of the…

A college communication professor discusses methods which will help learning disabled (LD) as well as non-LD students. General techniques advocated include presenting information in a variety of ways, allowing opportunities for questions and clarification, using an organized presentation of information, and being flexible in assignments and…

Describes an interdisciplinary effort that combines instruction in fundamentals of speech communication and English composition. (PD)

Presents a course proposal for an undergraduate course entitled "Political Communication and Women." Includes six units with instructional objectives, bibliographies, and student activities. The course is designed to identify the special needs of women in elective politics. (JMF)

Uses the following four approaches to review interpersonal communication research conducted by speech communication scholars: (1) dialog, (2) cohesion, (3) message process, and (4) rhetoric. Helps to clarify why different approaches are used in teaching interpersonal communication courses. (PD)

Reports on the development and measurement of a course to improve the communicative performance of tax enforcement officers. Includes an account of a unique content-analytic system for measuring communicative performance in situations considered flexibly formulaic transactions with objectives and prescribed strategies. (JMF)

Outlines ideas for teaching an introductory course in propaganda, including an historical perspective and review of the etymology of the word and an examination of those characteristics that separate propaganda from other communication arts. (JMF)

Based on his own experiences with public speaking courses, the instructor of a speech communication course for adults brings students to the task of speaking in front of the room gradually to reduce speech anxiety or communication apprehension. During successive class sessions, students speak sitting in their seats, standing beside their seats,…

Describes a four-week business communication course in which students visited companies. They prepared a formal report describing the companies in general terms, the activities they engaged in on the visit, and the presentations they made at each of the companies. (EL)

Discusses the planning, development, implementation, and course management required to use the Personalized System of Instruction in the basic speech communication course. (PD)

Describes how a graduate class in communication consulting might be structured. Includes a list of readings and class assignments. (PD)

Urges speech communication educators to adapt their curricula to the needs of potential law students. Describes a course of instruction which includes units on communication theory and the legal/trial process, interviewing and counseling, negotiating and pretrial strategies, and special topics in judicial communication. (PD)

Discusses the results of interviews and questionnaires on the oral communication skills needed by research scientists. Proposes an oral communication course for science majors and generally summarizes its content. (JMF)