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This article was downloaded by: [UQ Library]On: 24 November 2014, At: 15:25Publisher: RoutledgeInforma Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number:1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street,London W1T 3JH, UK

Southern SpeechCommunication JournalPublication details, including instructions forauthors and subscription information:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsjc19

A symposium:Teaching interculturalcommunication‐missionand designDonald E. Williams aa Professor of Speech , University of FloridaPublished online: 01 Apr 2009.

To cite this article: Donald E. Williams (1982) A symposium: Teachingintercultural communication‐mission and design, Southern SpeechCommunication Journal, 47:3, 251-252, DOI: 10.1080/10417948209372530

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417948209372530

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THE SOUTHERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION JOURNAL47 (SPRING, 1982), 251-276 •

A SYMPOSIUM:TEACHING INTERCULTURAL

COMMUNICATION-MISSION AND DESIGN

Forward

Tn launching its second half-century of professional service, the•••Southern Speech Communication Association simultaneouslylaunched its newest division, the Division of Intercultural Com-munication. Reflecting the current status of academic concernsregarding study of the speaking/listening act as it occurs invarious societal contexts, this venture heralds extensions andinnovations in our discipline. Our fledgling division presentedits first programs at the 1981 Austin, Texas, convention, andnow—in the three essays which follow—has its first representationin the pages of our journal.

While no canvass has been taken to ascertain the most preva-lent questions about this comparatively new area of academicpursuit, a strong case probably could be made for designatingthe following as the foremost question: How should one teachintercultural communication? Subsumed under this founda-tional question are some additional concerns: From whatpedagogical philosophy should one move, what central purposeshould be accommodated in formulating the teaching approach,through what instructional methodology should one implementguiding principles, and what learning objectives should one striveto realize through classroom instruction? These are questionsof mission and design. In formulating responses to these questionswe would determine the purpose and strategy for teaching inter-cultural communication.

Basic to these and other concerns is the matter of content.Addressing themselves to this topic, our three authors haveprobed alternatives in planning the teaching effort. As theinitiating spokesman, Alfred G. Smith discusses explicit directivesfor defining the nature and goals of instruction in interculturalcommunication, as decisions about content are made. Replyingto this germinative statement, Carley H. Dodd details what is

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involved in effecting available options in presenting the contentof courses of study in this area. Contributing the third essay,Donald E. Williams proposes possible content boundaries forintercultural communication courses and considers content im-plementation.

The trilogy is presented as deliberative: Considered wholly,it suggests more the spirit of exploration than proclamation. Tothe degree it generates further substantive discussion, its appear-ance in these pages will be justified. At the core of these threecomplementary essays is contemplation of what is being done,could be done, and should be done in the teaching of inter-cultural communication.

—Donald E. WilliamsProfessor of SpeechUniversity of Florida

I. CONTENT DECISIONS IN INTERCULTURALCOMMUNICATION

ALFRED G. SMITH

By establishing a new Division of Intercultural Communica-tion, SSCA acknowledges that this field has graduated from

an apprenticeship to a professional rank of scholarship and ex-pertise. The inception of this new division also gives us a timelymoment in the development of intercultural communicationstudies to reexamine what has been done and what can be done.We can reconsider the scope of the field and what it shouldinclude. We have this moment to make free and open decisionson the content and the priorities of this specialty, and to castthe die for the future.

SURVEY AND CHALLENGES

For this opportunity I reviewed the contents of many coursesin intercultural communication: syllabuses from Virginia, Min-

Alfred G. Smith (PhD., University of Wisconsin, 1956) is Professor ofSpeech Communication and Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin.

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