This interpretive study explored the communicative strategies teachers employ when constructing and presenting course syllabi to overcome challenges teachers face surrounding the syllabus. Data included 13 classroom observations, 19 teacher interviews, and document analysis of the instructors' syllabi. Communication strategies teachers used to…

Argues that communication educators as well as those in the education discipline must begin to promote communication training for all teachers. Describes goals, objectives, units, activities, and assignments for a comprehensive communication course for all teachers. (SG)

Outlines a basic course designed to develop communication competencies in teachers. Provides a pragmatic approach to the development of instructional communication competencies in areas of interpersonal, small group, information dispensing, and instructional discussion communications. (MH)

Presents a course syllabus which incorporates recent research findings indicating that students that suffer from communication apprehension may be treated in a regular oral communication course with no detrimental side effects to the rest of the class. Claims that, in general, an immediate atmosphere of support and encouragement must be developed.…

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)

Describes an undergraduate course designed to teach students how to think rhetorically. Notes that the course is organized around three questions students/critics are likely to ask, and presents a four-step approach to teach both the questions and the critical methods used to answer them. (MM)

Advocates the interpretive communities approach to teaching political communication. Discusses philosophical issues in the teaching of political communication courses, and pedagogical techniques (including concepts versus cases, clustering examples, C-SPAN video examples, and simulations and games). (SR)

Describes a public address curriculum based upon a different way of conceptualizing public address. (Author)

Presents an instructional unit designed to represent the organization as a social system constraining its members's freedom of speech. Discusses statement of goal and educational objectives, and a proposed strategy for achieving these objectives. (JMF)

Describes an introductory course in instructional communication research for graduate students. Discusses the rationale for such a course, course goals, units and readings, and student evaluation. (SR)

Offers a narrative based on a real event, in the form of a "docustory," describing that moment when teaching worked--when, in an instructional setting, communication was "perfect,""best," or "excellent." Describes a university course that involves performance and oral history, in which students perform stories of their own or others' loss or…