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Peer reviewedWhitchurch, Gail G. – Communication Education, 1993
Discusses philosophical and pedagogical issues in teaching a family communication course. Suggests a syllabus and some techniques for teaching, terminating, and following up the course. Lists selected resources. (SR)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Family Communication, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Download full textBerko, Roy – 1991
Using a "self-awareness" approach, this paper discusses a course in family communication designed to force students to examine their families, how they communicate, and the implications of that communication. Based on a text by Kathleen Galvin and Bernard J. Brommel, "Family Communication: Cohesion and Change," the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Family Communication, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGalvin, Kathleen M. – Communication Education, 1979
Describes the use of extended role play in a social simulation as a major teaching strategy for a family communication course. The strategy provides the students with a safe but challenging set of family systems for analyzing communication interaction. (JMF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Course Descriptions, Family Communication, Family Structure
Putting the Family on the Tube: An Interactive Television Approach to Teaching Family Communication.
Monsma, John W. – 1997
The possibility of presenting a family communication course to large numbers of students and to students who cannot be present in the classroom makes interactive television a delivery mode worth considering. A family communication course was introduced experimentally at Northern Arizona University in Spring, 1983 and was designed around the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Distance Education, Family Communication
Lyle, Marguerite R. – 1983
Because many parents are beginning to recognize the need for improvement in family communication, a lecture-forum program presented in the South Louisiana area encompasses the skill of listening to children. Defining communication as any behavior that carries a message that is perceived by someone else, the program explores the difference between…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Family Communication, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
LeBlanc, H. Paul, III – 1997
Current technological advances have made possible teaching techniques which were previously impossible. Distance and distributed learning technologies have made it possible to instruct outside of the classroom setting. An advantage to this advance includes that ability to reach students who are unable to relocate to the university. However, there…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Course Descriptions, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Goldberg, Judy – 1978
The family communication course at Arapahoe Community College attempts to acquaint students with the central role of communication in the maintenance and enhancement of family relationships and to equip them with knowledge that can produce a greater flexibility in their communication within their own family units. The course is built around two…
Descriptors: Assignments, Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Course Content
