Susan Beauchamp and Stanley Baran on Introduction to Human Communication's course goals
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
Susan Beauchamp and Stanley Baran, co-authors of Introduction to Human Communication, discuss what they each hope students will get out of their book. http://www.oxfordpresents.com/ms/beauchamp/ Susan R. Beauchamp worked for 15 years in broadcasting as a reporter, producer, and anchor. She received her M.A. in Media Literacy & Education from Vermont College at Norwich University. This continues to be her main area of focus at Bryant University where, as a member of the faculty of the Department of Communication, she has developed a curriculum around critical thinking about communication. Susan is a member of the National Association of Media Literacy Education, a strong proponent of service learning in the K-12 sector, and the director of Bryant’s annual Public Speaking Colloquium. Stanley J. Baran earned his PhD in communication research at the University of Massachusetts. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the AMOCO Teaching Excellence Award as the best instructor at the University of Texas at Austin and the College of Communication’s Teaching Excellence Award as that college’s outstanding professor. At San Jose State University he was named President’s Scholar as the university’s outstanding researcher. Dr. Baran has published ten books, scores of scholarly articles, and sits or has sat on the editorial boards of six journals. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages. He is a Fulbright Scholar, serving in residence at the Institut fur Journalismus und Kommunication at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany. © Oxford University Press
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