Describes a course that uses the "people are implicit social scientists and rhetoricians" metaphor to weave together topics now standard for interpersonal texts: perception, language, self-concept, nonverbal communication, conflict, etc. (PD)

Outlines Communication Capsule Courses offered at Notre Dame College in Saint Louis: a series of six, one credit courses, each offered in a 12-hour block on a Saturday. (JMF)

Presents a syllabus for the study of contemporary feminism focusing on feminism as a rhetorical movement as well as on the major topics that currently are being debated by both feminists and the general public. Summaries of lectures, sources, and sample discussion questions are included. (JMF)

Outlines four lessons as supplemental lectures in beginning argumentation classes. Encourages students to develop an appreciation of the interaction between culture and communication generally and a sense of argumentation's suitability in our own culture. (JMF)

Describes instructional objectives, resources, and student projects for four units of a course on women and communication: (1) intrapersonal communication: socialization and self-concept; (2) interpersonal relations between the sexes; (3) females' communication in structured groups; and (4) public communication: female orators. (JMF)

Discusses the planning, goals, and content of a course in interracial communication at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The laboratory design of the course allows students to learn about their own and others' racial attitudes and behaviors and to practice new interracial communication skills. (JMF)

Describes a course in interpersonal communication offered at the University of Minnesota in which four instructors taught a single section course. Each instructor taught a part of the course based on his area of expertise. (JMF)

Presents a rationale for using a Mastery Learning approach to competency-based education in public speaking. Identifies assumptions and applications of such an approach and describes procedures for teaching public speaking competence on this basis. (JMF)

Describes a special option to the required speech performance course at the Pennsylvania State University. This alternative is designed for students who have communication problems with class participation, basic social contacts, or formal performances. (JMF)

Lists possible "writing-as-performance" course objectives, all of which emphasize vocalization and movement while writing to encourage the fullest range of somatic response; describes four sample class assignments; notes that these courses bring students to a fuller appreciation of the reader/writer relationship in literary experience.…