Section Name
The Basic Course Forum
Abstract
The economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental dimensions of globalization impacting our society demand new ways of thinking, acting, and teaching the Basic Communication Course (BCC). By emphasizing the learning outcomes of intellectual and practical skills and acceptance of personal and social responsibility, students will experience a new central learning outcome: what we are calling a social justice sensibility. In this essay we will emphasize the need to integrate the intellectual and practical skills of oral communication and personal and social justice in the BCC. We will discuss how the BCC can help students learn habits of citizenship and the art of parrhesia by incorporating service learning for social justice advocacy. Importantly, we discuss how faculty can modify their grading rubric to assess this new outcome.
Recommended Citation
Patterson, Andrea and Swartz, Omar
(2014)
"Social Justice and the Basic Course: A Central Student Learning Outcome,"
Basic Communication Course Annual: Vol. 26, Article 10.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol26/iss1/10
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