Women's Voices: Reimagining the Public Speaking Curriculum
Name of Award
Faculty Research & Scholarly Activities Grant
Date Awarded
6-2014
Department/School
Communication
Project Description
Rafael Cervantes, Associate Professor of Communications, received a $5,800 Faculty Research & Scholarly Activities Grant to conduct a project that questions the underlying assumptions of 15 public speaking textbooks with the hypothesis that they are not student-centered. In order to develop a student-centered approach to teaching public speaking, 30 Evening/Weekend/Online (EWO) students will be interviewed regarding their experiences/challenges with public speaking. These results, along with the student-centered values of critical pedagogy, will become the basis for an essay that critiques the traditional public speaking curriculum in favor of an alternate, student-centered approach. The results will ultimately be used to redevelop the public speaking course, COMM 1030 here at St. Kate's.
Recommended Citation
Cervantes, Rafael, "Women's Voices: Reimagining the Public Speaking Curriculum" (2014). Internal Grant Awards. 50.
https://sophia.stkate.edu/internal_awards/50