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Behavior Matters

Communication in
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Curriculum

Communication in
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Communication:
Ubiquitous,
Complex,
Consequential

Communication
Scholarship and
the Humanities

2006 Carroll C.
Arnold Lecture
Communication in the General Education Curriculum
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This publication was developed by the NCA Educational Policies Board Task
Force Committee on Communication in the General Education Curriculum. It
contains a rationale for and resources for communication instruction in
general education and two statements prepared by notable communication
chairs and administrators.

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Communication Programs in Higher Education
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Communication faculty members and administrators are often called on to
answer questions regarding the nature and substance of communication as an
academic discipline and its merits as an area of instruction and scholarly study.
This document provides an understanding and evaluation of communication
studies, an assessment of communication programs and support of
communication studies programs. This information is useful for faculty and
administrators establishing a new communication program or improving an
existing program; providing validation for discipline support on a particular
campus, or helping address the requirements of accountability and program
review.

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Communication: Ubiquitous, Complex, Consequential
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Marshall S. Poole and Joseph B. Walther, Eds.

This document, a collaborative effort among numerous contributors,
summarizes the relevance of communication research to four grand
challenges in U.S. society: revitalizing our political system, promoting physical
and mental health, fostering emerging global organizations, and
understanding basic human relationships. With support from the National
Science Foundation, a group of communication researchers began work on
this booklet that was later edited and produced by NCA members and the NCA
National Office.

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This publication presents examples of how communication research leads to
greater understanding in four areas—communication and political activity,
communication and relationships, communication and health, and
communication and new technology.
2006 Carroll C. Arnold Lecture
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Civil Rights/Civil Sites: “. . . Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters”

Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The 2006 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture invites us to think of places
as more than contexts for communication.  Along with her co-authors, Carole
Blair has made the case repeatedly that U.S. commemorative places
themselves communicate important civic lessons to their visitors.  Although
steeped in the past, these memory sites address profound public tensions,
political controversies, and cultural anxieties of the present.   

On November 5, 1989, the Southern Poverty Law Center unveiled its latest
addition to the Montgomery, Alabama cityscape.  Situated on the entry plaza
of the then new SPLC office, the Civil Rights Memorial attracted considerable
attention, not only because of its subject matter and its highly visible patron
organization, but also as a result of its designing architect.  Maya Lin was
perhaps the nation's most famous contemporary architect, having designed
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s.  
Like its famous predecessor, the Civil Rights Memorial's deceptively simple
design invites a multiplicity of interpretations.  The Civil Rights Memorial
complex was supplemented in October 2005 with the dedication of a new Civil
Rights Memorial Center.  

Based on an in-progress book manuscript, co-authored by Neil Michel, Dr.
Blair will offer a rhetorical analysis of the Memorial and Memorial Center,
arguing that these civic sites challenge their local symbolic context in
productive ways and confront their visitors with the need to consider racial
issues and conflict in the present as much as the past.  Their work on this
site, although situated firmly in rhetoric, intersects memory and performance
studies, public art, religion, tourism studies, African American studies,
discourses of nationalism and citizenship, as well as the politics of institutions
and of everyday life.  The research is supported by a grant from the Center
for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina.  

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Communication Scholarship and the Humanities
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Readers of Communication Scholarship and the Humanities will find a broadly framed introduction to the humanistic facets of communication studies followed by detailed descriptions of nine major research emphases, areas of inquiry in our discipline that have a close connection to contemporary directions in the humanities. Crafted primarily for those unfamiliar with our discipline, the white paper also identifies exemplary research in each of these nine areas, all chosen because of their influence in their respective areas, their representativeness, and/or because of recognitions of their quality as evidenced by awards. The intended audiences for Communication Scholarship and the Humanities include funding agencies, foundation program officers, deans and administrators, other professional associations, our students, and the general public.