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| author | Weitzel, Al |
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| contents | Higher Education Communication Curricula Outside of the U.S.: An Inventory and Data Report. Weitzel, Al College Curriculum Curriculum Design Curriculum Development Curriculum Research Foreign Countries Higher Education International Education Mass Media Speech Communication A study investigated higher education communication curricula in foreign countries to determine the status (program offerings, objectives and trends) of communication curricula throughout the world. Considering the difficulty in preparing a comprehensive international inventory, a modified "snowball technique" (involving a series of systematic referrals whereby the size of the sample increases exponentially) evolved as the best means of research. Each of the snowball contacts received a letter explaining the focus of the study on catalog descriptions, requesting advice/guidance, soliciting appropriate materials or library references about the system of communication education, and soliciting other snowball targets. Data, gathered from approximately 250 respondents, provided a partial inventory for discussion of curricula in Australia and the United Kingdom, proceeding to the other English-speaking countries of Canada and New Zealand, and concluding with non-English speaking countries, based on an alphabetical consideration of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Results revealed that primarily English-speaking regions have embraced communication as a higher education discipline, while "pioneering" seems to have occurred in non-English speaking regions. Leadership to extend this preliminary study and to facilitate dissemination of teaching and research to regions in need of curricular expansion is called for. (Thirty-four references and an appendix describing the snowball research methodology are attached.) (KEH) |
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| spellingShingle | Higher Education Communication Curricula Outside of the U.S.: An Inventory and Data Report. Weitzel, Al College Curriculum Curriculum Design Curriculum Development Curriculum Research Foreign Countries Higher Education International Education Mass Media Speech Communication Higher Education Communication Curricula Outside of the U.S.: An Inventory and Data Report. Weitzel, Al College Curriculum Curriculum Design Curriculum Development Curriculum Research Foreign Countries Higher Education International Education Mass Media Speech Communication A study investigated higher education communication curricula in foreign countries to determine the status (program offerings, objectives and trends) of communication curricula throughout the world. Considering the difficulty in preparing a comprehensive international inventory, a modified "snowball technique" (involving a series of systematic referrals whereby the size of the sample increases exponentially) evolved as the best means of research. Each of the snowball contacts received a letter explaining the focus of the study on catalog descriptions, requesting advice/guidance, soliciting appropriate materials or library references about the system of communication education, and soliciting other snowball targets. Data, gathered from approximately 250 respondents, provided a partial inventory for discussion of curricula in Australia and the United Kingdom, proceeding to the other English-speaking countries of Canada and New Zealand, and concluding with non-English speaking countries, based on an alphabetical consideration of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Results revealed that primarily English-speaking regions have embraced communication as a higher education discipline, while "pioneering" seems to have occurred in non-English speaking regions. Leadership to extend this preliminary study and to facilitate dissemination of teaching and research to regions in need of curricular expansion is called for. (Thirty-four references and an appendix describing the snowball research methodology are attached.) (KEH) |
| title | Higher Education Communication Curricula Outside of the U.S.: An Inventory and Data Report. |
| topic | College Curriculum Curriculum Design Curriculum Development Curriculum Research Foreign Countries Higher Education International Education Mass Media Speech Communication |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED322562 |