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Download full textBuzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1988
The "speech methods" course can be made more meaningful to its students, and more manageable for its faculty, by the development and use of a pre-methods sequence of teacher preparation which involves advising, focusing content and assignments, and providing occasional seminar sessions for the speech education students and their…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Speech Communication
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson; Holmes, Kelli S. – 1989
A 1987 study surveyed the national membership (N=350) of the Speech Communication Association's Committee on Small College Speech Programs as the first step in a longitudinal project to describe and monitor speech communication programs on small campuses as well as small programs on larger campuses. Data helped to: (1) determine trends in program…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1983
The official college catalogues of the 25 institutions comprising the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) and the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) consortia were studied to provide descriptive information on the special needs and interests of smaller speech and theatre programs. Information on speech departments indicated three general…
Descriptors: Consortia, Curriculum Research, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1989
One of the most significant activities undertaken by members of small college speech departments has been the development of the Essential Undergraduate Curriculum in Speech Communication at the Small College. This paper reviews six aspects of this curriculum: (1) the "statement of domain"; (2) iterdisciplinary aspects; (3) questions of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1984
Environmental differences for speech departments at large and small colleges are not simply of scale; there are qualitative as well as quantitative differences. At small colleges, faculty are hired as teachers, rather than as researchers. Because speech teachers at small colleges must be generalists, and because it is often difficult to replace…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Department Heads, Departments
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson; Whiteaker, Julie E. – 1990
The second phase of a longitudinal project to describe and monitor speech communication programs at small colleges, expanded the data available on programs and provided an indication of program changes in the 3-year period since the first phase, which gathered initial data on the programs. The pilot study conducted in the first phase involved a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Educational Trends, Extracurricular Activities
