Fostering Civic Engagement in the Communication Research Methods Course

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Liu
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Communication Research

scholarly journals Reflexivity and Practice in COVID-19: Qualitative Analysis of Student Responses to Improvisation in Their Research Methods Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 78-94
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Spradley ◽  
R. Tyler Spradley
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Instructor Communication ◽  
Student Participant ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

The improvisations needed to adapt to COVID-19 teaching and learning conditions affected students and faculty alike. This study uses chaos theory and improvisation to examine an undergraduate communication research methods course that was initially delivered synchronously/face-to-face and then transitioned to asynchronous/online in March 2020. Reflective writings were collected at the end of the semester with the 25 students enrolled in the course and follow-up interviews conducted with six students. Thematic analysis revealed that available and attentive student-participant, student-student, and student-instructor communication complemented learner-centered and person-centered goals, but unavailable or inattentive communication, especially with participants and students in the research team, contributed to negative perceptions of learner-centered goals. Implications explore how communication research methods pedagogy may achieve greater available, attentive, and learner/person-oriented goals through modeling, resourcing, reflexivity, and appreciation in online and offline course delivery to enhance shifts in communication pedagogy, whether voluntarily or involuntarily initiated by faculty.

scholarly journals Teaching Students How to Make Their Dreams Come True: An Autoethnography of Developing and Teaching the Dream Research Methods Course

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Baesler
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Student Perspectives ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Institutional Issues ◽  
Dream Research

How to make students’ dreams come true is the central focus of this autoethnography that chronicles the story of the transformation of a traditional undergraduate communication research methods course into a new and creative dream research methods course. Pedagogical and institutional issues in teaching the traditional methods course join personal influences in my life story to birth the new dream research methods course. The content and format of the new course are described chronologically using personal stories, student perspectives, advice to teachers, and reflection questions. I encourage teachers, by experimenting with the ideas in the dream research methods course, to serve as midwives for helping bring their students’ dreams to birth.

For the Undergraduate Research Methods Course

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-170
Author(s):  
William J. Froming
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Methods Course
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