This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.

In Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond, contributors discuss topics inherent in merging communication across disciplines, including challenges and opportunities, teaching and research, communication and student identity, future directions, and the transformative possibilities of teaching communication across disciplines. A cross-disciplinary approach provides 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. The 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: It’s 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

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