In Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond, contributors discuss key topics of merging communication across disciplines, teaching and research across disciplines, communication and student identity, and directions and transformation of teaching communication across disciplines. A cross-disciplinary approach is offered as a resolution to provide an avenue for the integration of a broad education that prepares students for global citizenship and civic engagement. Ultimately, this book argues that positioning communication as a theoretically rich process of social interaction and meaning with attention to rhetorical sensitivity can expand the vision of communication across the disciplines as merely skills-based. This increased demand for communication expertise opens opportunities for exploration, growth, community development, and cross-disciplinary alliances. Scholars of communication, English, and education will find this book of particular interest.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joanna G. Burchfield and April A. Kedrowicz
Section 1
Chapter 1: Its Not Like Learning to Drive a Car
Juliane Mora
Chapter 2: Public Relations and Politics: Navigating Communication Across the
Curriculum as Communication Scholars
Kelly Norris Martin and Amy L. Housley Gaffney
Chapter 3: Creating Sustainable Communication Across Disciplines Programs
through Evaluation, Reflection, and Research
Stephanie Norander
Chapter 4: Grounded Practical Theory for Researching and Teaching
Communication Across Disciplines
Grace E. Peters and Heidi L. Muller
Chapter 5: Communication And Media/Technology Affordances in the Ways We
Teach and Communicate Across Boundaries
Patrice M. Buzzanell and Carla B. Zoltowski
Section 2
Chapter 6: Life Projects: A Versatile, Motivating Conduit for Developing
Communication Competence in Cross-Disciplinary Communication Instruction
Tasha R. Dunn
Chapter 7: Speaking Across Disciplines: Creating Specialized Sections of Oral
Communication General Education Courses
Melissa A. Lucas, Raphael Mazzone, Cassondra Pope, Christine Masterson
Schaaf, and Katlin Gray
Chapter 8: Student Evolution: Communication Tourist to Native Practitioner
Joanna G. Burchfield and Jamie M. Chilton
Chapter 9: Communication Becomes You: Enhancing Veterinary Practice through
Integrated Communication Instruction
April A. Kedrowicz
Chapter 10: Bringing Communication Curriculum to a Business School: Creating
an Accredited, Undergraduate Certificate Program in Business and Professional
Communication
Allison M. Alford and Christina Iluzada
Chapter 11: Leading Multidisciplinary Medical Sciences Leadership Teams
Through Communication
Lindsay J. Della, Mary Z. Ashlock, Gerard P. Rabalais, Staci W. Saner, and
Elyssa Q. Smith
Chapter 12: Center Alliance: Transforming Communication Practices in the
Mathematics Classroom
Luke LeFebvre, R. Dustin Florence, and Mai Dao
Section 3
Chapter 13: Critical Autoethnography as a Critical Labor
Yusaku Yajima
Chapter 14: Transforming the Discipline and Democracy through an Integrated
Approach to Communication Education
Leila Brammer
Chapter 15: Laying a Foundation for Care and Repair: A Case for a Civic Turn
in Career Technical and Vocational Education
Kathleen F. McConnell
Chapter 16: Something Very Fishy (SVF): Avenues of Communication to Inspire
Engagement with Climate and Marine Science
Meghnaa Tallapragada, Randi J. Sims, Tokea G. Payton, Kara R. Titus, Kelly E.
Bridgeford, Kylie M. Smith, Melissa Fuentes, Kathy L. Prosser, Michael J.
Childress
Chapter 17: Justice-based Public Pedagogy of Care: The Organizing Work of the
Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)
Mohan J. Dutta, Satveer Kaur-Gill, Nga Hau Christine Elers, Md Mahbubur
Rahman, Pooja Jayan, Indranil Mandal, Venessa Pokaia, and Selina Metuamate
About the Contributors
Joanna G. Burchfield is assistant professor of communication instruction for the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida.
April A. Kedrowicz is associate professor of communication at North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine.