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Manning, Helen H. – 1982
To examine the current status of speech and theatre departments in small (1000 to 3000 students) U.S. liberal arts colleges, 24 colleges in the Midwest and Great Lakes areas were surveyed. The survey revealed that the colleges organized speech and theatre in one of four ways; they either (1) combined departments, (2) split the two into separate…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Programs, Departments, Educational Trends
Trank, Douglas M. – 1983
Recent surveys have shown that the basic speech communication course, designed to introduce students to the discipline and to meet their basic proficiency needs, is alive and growing rapidly. While this is generally good news, a more critical examination reveals a variety of issues in need of resolution. A significant amount of course time is…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Evaluation
Thorpe, Judie M.; Benson, James A. – 1983
A study assessed the communication skills of practicing lawyers in order to determine whether they had needs that could be met by the speech communication discipline. Specifically, the study investigated (1) the importance lawyers attached to certain communication skills, (2) how proficienty they considered themselves to be in using those skills,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Part of the Alberta (Canada) Education's "Program of Studies for Elementary Schools, 1978" (amended 1981), this publication presents the curriculum specifications for the grade six language arts achievement test. These curriculum specifications integrate a taxonomy of levels of thinking skills with a set of five communications…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communication Skills, Comprehension, Critical Thinking
Chan, T. C.; Curran, Theresa; Deskin, Caroline – 1997
This study compared the professional expectations of graduate students in speech and language pathology (SLP) with the employment realities offered by the profession. A total of 89 graduate students enrolled in the SLP program at Valdosta State University (VSU) in Georgia during 1995-97 completed a seven-item questionnaire on employment prospects.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)
Miller, Keith A. – 1987
Noting that creating an extension education program is more complicated than merely transporting an existing program to an off-campus site, this paper discusses the preliminary issues relevant to deciding whether or not a communication department should develop an extended degree program. The paper first discusses the nature of nontraditional…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Extension Education
