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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
Crawford, Barbara L. – 1984
An experimental, interdisciplinary, mastery learning course in intercultural communication--designed to help students at Santa Barbara (California) City College overcome barriers arising from language, attitudinal, nonverbal, and ethnocentric variations in communication styles--is described in this collection of documents. The collection includes…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 7 titles deal with the following topics: (1) two approaches to teaching public speaking at the community college level, (2) case studies from a communication skills peer-tutoring program for underachieving college freshmen, (3)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Church Workers, Classroom Communication
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the relation between classroom communication and teacher personality; (2) a survey of speech programs in Texas community colleges; (3) improving student responses by training teachers…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Turlington, Anita; Timms, Keith – 1992
This module contains speaking assignments for high school students that are taken from six different career areas. Each career section begins with a brief introduction to the career and a communications profile of the person interviewed. These pages can be copied and given to students as handouts. Each section also contains some assignments…
Descriptors: Banking, Career Exploration, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning
Friday, Robert A.; Beranek, Bernard F. – 1984
In reorganizing its core curriculum, Duquesne University (Pennsylvania) created a course that combined the required freshman composition and speech communication courses. A two-term pilot course offered eight hours of credit, meeting for one hour three times a week and for a two hour lab once a week. Oral readings were assigned in order to help…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College English, Core Curriculum, Course Descriptions
Boileau, Don M.; McBath, James H. – Updating School Board Policies, 1987
School systems are increasingly following national reports' recommendations that oral communication instruction in the high school curriculum should develop students' everyday academic competencies, personal confidence, and research and employment abilities. This report discusses instructional applications of oral communication and offers course…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence, Creative Expression
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1985
Noting that language skills such as thinking, listening, reading, writing, and speaking are basic to education, this guide for Oklahoma schools contends that school curricula should emphasize the role that language arts play in understanding all subjects, achieving success in life, and in communicating with people. Following a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Drama
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Based on the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Alberta (Canada) Education 1978 curriculum, this revised curriculum guide stresses the importance of students' active involvement in using language. The guide regroups the 1978 skills and concepts for junior high school into the following five language strands: speaking, listening, viewing,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
Ediger, Marlow – 1986
Discussing various aspects of the language arts curriculum, this guide contains the following essays: (1) "Listening and the Child in the Language Arts Curriculum," which details a philosophy for teaching and learning in the language arts; (2) "Creative Writing in the Curriculum," which outlines ways teachers can help students achieve creatively;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Content Area Reading, Creative Writing
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