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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
Warnick, Barbara; Ruf, Henry L. – Speaker and Gavel, 1980
The two articles in this publication focus on ways of teaching argumentation and debate in the college setting. The first article examines the place of the argumentation and debate course in the speech communication curriculum and suggests cognitive and behavioral objectives and assignments for use in such a course. The second article discusses…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
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

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
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
Beebe, Steven A.; Biggers, Thompson – 1984
One hundred thirty-eight college communication departments responded to a survey to assess the status of intercultural communication instruction. The questionnaire was designed to identify the demographic characteristics of institutions that offer introductory courses in intercultural communication, the type of students taking such courses, class…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Educational Research
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
Moore, Michael R. – 1979
Intended for use by college basic speech communication course directors and teachers, the course described in this paper is based on the model of communication competency developed by R. R. Allen and K. L. Brown. The first section of the paper presented a brief discussion of the model, which defines a competent communicator as one who is capable…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Competency Based Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Klopf, Donald W.; Cambra, Ronald E. – 1981
People spend about three-fourths of their waking hours engaged in some form of communication and about half of this time speaking and listening. In spite of this, communication generally is ineffective. There are many reasons for improving one's communication skills, the most important being employability. For example, a survey of personnel…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Fadely, Dean; Hamlett, Ralph – 1983
Of interest to curriculum developers, the materials in this paper pertain to the communication component of the prelaw curriculum initiated in the 1979-80 school year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The materials include (1) a brief decription of the prelaw program; (2) information sheets for students considering the program;…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
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
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