SCM 609: Speech Communication Pedagogy
Tuesdays, 6-10 pm, LAB 469
Dr. W. Atkins-Sayre
Summer 2008
Instructor information:
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Office: LAB 475
Phone: 601-266-4370
Email:
Web site:
Office Hours: by appointment
(please email me to set up a time)
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Readings:
Anita L. Vangelisti, John A. Daly, and Gustav W. Friedrich, Teaching Communication: Theory, Research, and Methods, 2nd ed. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999).
Photocopied materials available in class
Course description:
This course is designed to prepare graduate students in speech communication to teach at the college level for the first time and/or to enhance the teaching skills of graduate students. The assignments are intended to prepare students for the academic job market and to stimulate research in the area of communication education.
Course objectives:
To prepare students to teach speech communication at the college level
To prepare students for the academic job market
To encourage research in the area of communication education
Course requirements:
1. 1-2 page teaching philosophy (15%)
2. 2 Syllabi
Lower-division course (15%)
Upper-division course (15%)
3. 30-40 minute mini-lecture for created courses (20%)
4. 15 page critical literature review on communication education topic (35%)
Course policies:
1. Late work: All written assignments will be due on the assigned day, unless we have made previous arrangements. Assignments will be considered late if received after that time. Late papers incur a penalty of one letter grade (10 points) per calendar day.
2. Attendance: Absences will affect your course grade.
3. Academic Honesty
From the 2007-2008 Southern Miss Graduate Bulletin:
Plagiarism is scholarly theft, and it is defined as the unacknowledged use of secondary sources. More specifically, any written or oral presentation in which the writer or speaker does not distinguish clearly between original and borrowed material constitutes plagiarism.
Because students, as scholars, must make frequent use of the concepts and facts developed by other scholars, plagiarism is not the mere use of another’s facts and ideas. However, it is plagiarism when students present the work of other scholars as if it were their own work.
Plagiarism is committed in a number of ways:
1. reproducing another author’s writing as if it were one’s own
2. paraphrasing another author’s work without citing the original
3. borrowing from another author’s ideas, even though those ideas are reworded, without giving credit
4. copying another author’s organization without giving credit
Plagiarism is a serious offense. An act of plagiarism may lead to a failing grade on the paper and in the course, as well as sanctions that may be imposed by the student judicial system.
Disabilities
If a student has a disability that qualifies under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and requires accommodations, he/she should contact the Office for Disability Accommodations (ODA) for information on appropriate policies and procedures. Disabilities covered by ADA may include learning, psychiatric, physical disabilities, or chronic health disorders. Students can contact ODA if they are not certain whether a medical condition/disability qualifies.
Address:
The University of Southern Mississippi
Office for Disability Accommodations
118 College Drive # 8586
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Voice Telephone: (601) 266-5024 or (228) 214-3232Fax: (601) 266-6035
Individuals with hearing impairments can contact ODA using the Mississippi Relay
Service at 1-800-582-2233 (TTY) or email Suzy Hebert at .
Course Grading
The following grading scale will be used:
90 and above=A80--89=B70--79=C60--69=D59 or less=F
Support for Writing and Speaking
Keep in mind that you have support for both speaking and writing on the Southern Miss campus. For free, one-on-one tutoring in writing and speaking, visit the WritingCenter and the SpeakingCenter. The WritingCenter is currently located on the first floor of Cook Library some. For more information about their services, visit the web site:
For help with your presentations/mini-lectures, you should plan to visit the University of Southern Mississippi Speaking Center. The Center is a free peer-tutoring center, focused on improving students’ oral communication through consulting. Consultants (undergraduate and graduate Speech Communication majors) meet one-on-one with students, at any stage of the speech-writing process, working on organizing, outlining, developing, and delivering speeches. The Center offers speaking handouts, a speaking library, and a video-recording room to record your speeches. For more information about the center, visit them at:
Cook Library 114
601-266-4965
Tentative Daily Schedule
Note: VDF=Teaching Communication book; packet readings are indicated by author name(s)
May 27Introduction to course and communication education
Read: VDF intro, chap. 1-2
June 3Becoming a part of the (speech communication) academic community
Teaching for the first time/creating a new course
Read: VDF chap. 3-5; Hart; Morreale & Pearson; Thompson
June 10Teaching public speaking
Speaking across the curriculum
Read: VDF chap. 6; Dannels; Fleury; Palmerton
Guest: Dr. Larry Hosman
June 17Teaching small group
Teaching upper level/topics courses
Research proposals due (2-3 pages)
Read: VDF chap. 8, 9-17 (select 2 chapters from chaps. 9-17 that are aligned with your area of specialty and/or are classes that you might want to teach)
Guests: Dr. John Meyer and Dr. Charles Tardy
June 24Teaching interpersonal/service learning
Mini-lectures
Read: VDF chap. 8 and TBA
Guest: Dr. Richard Conville
July 1Teaching writing
Mini-lectures
1stcourse syllabus draft due
Read: TBA
Guest: Dr. Sheldon Walcher
July8Teaching styles (discussion/lecture)/teaching philosophy
Directing a communication center
Teaching philosophy draft due; 1stcourse syllabus due
Read: VDF: chap. 22-24, 26; Turner; Hobgood; Montell
July 15Classroom issues/issues in communication education
Mini-lectures
2ndcourse syllabus draft due; Teaching philosophy due
Read: VDF: chap. 18-21
Bring in journal article copies for others to read
July 22Research in communication education
Discussion about research projects (brief presentations)
2ndcourse syllabus due
Read: Readings from classmates; browse recent issues of Communication Education, online SoTL journals (see course web site)
July 29(Finals week) Paper presentations; papers due
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