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Project Based Learning In Family Communication, Brian Heisterkamp

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This course assignment represents a way instructors could implement project-based learning (PBL) into a family communication course. The project guidelines conform to accepted practices related to PBL including student voice and choice, reflection, and authenticity. A sample team contract is also included.

4 Speech Assignments: Student Requirements, Sarah Patzold

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

In anticipation of transitioning from quarters to semesters, the current speech assignments for Communication 120: Oral Communication were reviewed. Included here are four revised sample speech assignments (Cultural Artifact Speech, Group Speech, Informative Speech, and Persuasive Speech) consisting of each speech's purpose as well as the student requirements.

Flc - Comm 120 Revision, Guadalupe Alatorre

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This is a program-based FLC for the development of Communication 120: Oral Communication as our department enters the transformation to semesters in Fall 2020. With approximately 40 sections of Comm 120 (enrollment of 1,120 students) offered each quarter and additional sections offered during the summer sessions this CoP will provide a much needed examination of this GE course and how best to review the curriculum and assessment needs. In order to produce this product our learning community completed the following:

• Consulted the literature on best practices for teaching and learning 

• Investigated research on best practices for teaching and assessing Oral …

Oral Communication: Sample Speech Outlines & Bibliographies, Amy Wassing

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

Communication 120: Oral Communication is a course which meets a CSUSB General Education Requirement. As the campus transitions from quarters to semesters in fall 2020 the COMM 120 course was examined to meet curriculum and assessment needs. This document contains samples of the following:

• a full outline in APA format
• MLA and APA outlines with in-text citations
• bibliographies in MLA and APA formats

How Ebts Might Be Incorporated Into Public Relations Coursework To Promote Deep Learning, Jessica Nerren

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

In thinking about How EBTs might be incorporated into public relations coursework to promote deep learning, it was determined there would be multimedia youtube video production assignment, where students make a youtube tutorial on a threshold concept in comm 344, Public Relations Writing. To do this, students approached this in a problem based learning model, and planned for it with a think/pair/share planning session.

Honor's First-Year Curriculum Institute: Reflection, Angelina Burkhart

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

The Honor’s First Year Curriculum Institute, composed of a team of faculty members from multiple disciplines at CSUSB, aimed to re-conceptualize the Honor’s curriculum by examining and revising existing course objectives and integrating student-centered approaches surveyed from pedagogy literature. The team had some clear goals driving the decisions we made, both within and across the “Golden Four” courses. The weeklong institute focused on three of the “Golden Four” courses, which included HON 1100 (Writing Rhetorically), HON 1200 (Thinking Critically), and HON 1300 (Communicating Orally). Goals driving the design of these three courses, in regard to general and course-specific guidelines, included …