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Elliot, Linda; And Others – 1979
Designed to aid school districts, administrators, and teachers in meeting the Idaho Department of Education Speech Communication requirement, this pamphlet first defines the learning-teaching environment for the speech communication course, describes who should teach it, and justifies its inclusion in the school curriculum. The main part of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Descriptions, Interpersonal Communication, Public Speaking
Juleus, Nels – 1983
Noting that speech instruction as a liberal study must include significant subject matter, rigorous intellectual application, high ethical standards, and responsibility, this paper describes the humanities core course at Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) as providing such a climate for speech instruction. The paper first describes the course goals…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Meeks, Lynn Langer – 1991
Delineating the content that must be covered in the secondary schools of the State of Idaho, this guide presents a course of study for a full-semester course designed to help students better understand the complexities of the communication process and succeed in a world of interaction. Although educators sometimes use the terms interchangeably,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Interpersonal Communication
McGaffey, Ruth – Journal of the Wisconsin Communication Association, 1983
The speech communication department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, provides a rigorous and legally oriented course in freedom of speech. The objectives of the course are to help students gain insight into the historical and philosophical foundations of the First Amendment, the legal/judicial processes concerning the First Amendment, and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech
Ambler, Bob – 1982
The University of Tennessee (Knoxville) offers as a special section of the public speaking curriculum, a "speech anxiety" program, taught by faculty and graduate students from the speech and theatre and educational psychology departments and staff from the counseling services center. The students spend the first few weeks of the special…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Communication Skills
Crawford, John E. – 1983
Three innovations combine to make it possible for Arizona State University to move 1,600 students a year through a performance based communication course with no expense but the salary of a single faculty member. Apart from the obvious economic benefits, the mass lecture/small group breakdown format assures that the student will receive an…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Grading, Higher Education
Portolan, Janet S. – 1985
This course description presents information on Speech 50, Practical Oral Communication, a course offered at Fullerton College and designed to provide two-year college students with basic communication skills for use in everyday situations. Introductory material provides basic information on the course; the major course goals and long-range…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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Cox, J. Robert – Speaker and Gavel, 1980
The place of argumentation within the speech communication curriculum is the focus of this article. The article provides a rationale for an upper-level college course in the deliberation and decision making process currently taught at the University of North Carolina, and relates that rationale to broader concerns of argumentation theory. Various…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Debate, Decision Making
Sikkink, Don – 1981
Despite a professional commitment to "teach ethics," speech communication literature and textbooks contain almost no advice or help on how to accomplish this task. An integrated teaching approach, however, can involve students more directly in the ethical issues that may arise in a persuasion course. The first element in increasing student…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Ethics, Higher Education
Cohen, Marlene C. – 1983
The community services department of an eastern community college offers a noncredit course called Overcoming Speech Anxiety. The students range from those who avoid conversation with most people to those who speak publicly often but with a great deal of discomfort. Their reasons for taking such a class suggest that most people suffer situational…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems
Evans, Adeline L.; Rackley, Sandra W. – 1982
Designed as a 13-week self-help course to meet the speech and language needs of college students in the areas of articulation, voice control, standard American usage, and fluency, this combination syllabus and workbook offers a rationale for the course, describes course objectives and content, and provides worksheets and evaluation forms for the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Course Descriptions, Grammar, Higher Education
King, Thomas R. – 1974
The contents of this document include a paper describing a contract approach in the fundamentals of speech course and the syllabus for the course taught for the last six quarters at Florida State University. The course description outlines the objectives, grading procedures, and requirements for successfully fulfilling the performance contract…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Evaluation Methods
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Klugh, Henry E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
Describes a program that gives psychology students practice in written and oral communication. It involves students in writing an abstract of a journal article and in making an oral presentation. Writing and speaking skills, along with methodology, may be the most enduring legacy of introductory psychology courses. (CS)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Psychology
Hudson, David D. – 1981
Intended as a curriculum development aid for speech communication instructors, this paper provides an outline model for basic speech competencies. The first section of the outline offers approaches to the basic speech communication course, including traditional versus competency-based approaches to education, and presents the three dimensions of a…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
James, Anita C. – 1984
Within the structure of a senior and graduate level course, students in the Ohio University school of interpersonal communication collaborate with community groups in the creation of campaigns promoting issue-awareness, political candidates, fund raising events, and citizen action. The course objectives include teaching students to understand the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Community Needs, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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