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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Online-Zugang: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED322562 |
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- 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)