Teaching First-Year Communication Courses

<p>In this book eleven teacher-scholars of communication provide a robust study of the challenges and opportunities facing those who teach first-year communication courses. The first half of the volume offers paradigmatic analyses including a survey of the ecology of the first-year course a plea to integrate our first-year courses into our research agendas a study of the gap between scholarship and pedagogy within rhetoric a proposal for seven core competencies to unify the various first-year communication courses and an argument for a critical communication paradigm. The second half details innovations in classroom practice such as the teaching techniques of social justice pedagogues team-based learning as a model for the public speaking course response and feedback techniques in teaching public speaking at the University of Copenhagen teaching online speech as a new course focused on the unique challenges of digital communication and the role of oral interpretation and performance classes in the first-year curriculum. Finally this volume concludes with the editor’s manifesto for teaching public speaking. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Review of Communication. </i></p>