Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization

Paaige K. Turner (Ph.D. Purdue University) is Dean of the College of Communication, Information, and Media at Ball State University. She was the recipient of the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Region IV 2012 Dorothy Brickman Outstanding New Professional Award and a 2013 Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award to India. For the past six years, she has co-lead the Campus Internationalization Track at the Institute for Campus and Curriculum Internationalization. She has been an external reviewer for the American Council of Education: Center for Internationalization and Globalization Internationalization Laboratory and served as the program coordinator for the AIEA: Association of International Education Administrators Senior Advisor Program. Soumia Bardhan (Ph.D. University of New Mexico) is Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests are informed by Intercultural Communication and Islamic/Religious Studies and her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and books by leading academic presses. Soumia has directed seven travel study courses in Spain, France, Morocco, and India. She serves on NCA’s Fostering International Collaborations in the Age of Globalization Task Force and is Chair of the Intercultural Communication Division of ICA. Dr. Tracey Quigley Holden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Academic Director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative Student Leaders Program, and an Affiliate Faculty Member with the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware. Dr. Holden earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, her M.A. from San Diego State University, and her B.A. from Texas A&M University. Dr. Eddah M. Mutua is a professor in the department of communication studies at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. She teaches and researches in the area of intercultural communication with a special interest in intercultural and interethnic conflict, post-conflict peace communication, and African culture and communication. She coordinates an award-wining service-learning project nationally recognized for its efforts to promote internationalization of intercultural communication curriculum. Dr. Mutua earned her Ph.D. from University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Foreward: Notes on, Confessions About and Hopes for Globalization - Stephen John Hartnett

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives of Globalism, Internationalization, and the Current State of the Communication Discipline and Curriculum

Chapter One: The Relevance of Communication in Internationalization

Paaige K. Turner and Eunkyong Lee Yook

Chapter Two: Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum:State of the Field

Soumia Bardhan

Part II: Internationalizing the Communication Discipline and Curriculum

Chapter Three: Intercultural Communication: A 17-year Analysis of the State of the Discipline

Soumia Bardhan, Janet Colvin, Stephen Croucher, Qingwen Dong, and Moira O’Keeffe

Chapter Four: The Internationalization of a Communication Studies Major: A Global Redesign

Joseph Zompetti, Lance Lippert and John Baldwin

Chapter Five: Integrating the Goals of Global Learning into the Learning Outcomes of the Communication Curriculum

Elizabeth M. Goering

Chapter Six: Internationalizing the Community College Basic Course through Intercultural Competence

Wei Sun, Donna Oti, Andrew Jared Critchfield and Taryn K. Myers

Chapter Seven: Internationalizing the Communication Center

Laura A. Stengrim

Chapter Eight: Internationalizing Rhetorical Studies

Alberto González and Amy N. Heuman

Chapter Nine: The Internationalization of Scientists’ Communication: An Essential Literature Review

Helena Torres-Purroy and Sònia Mas-Alcolea

Chapter Ten: Internationalizing Public Relations

Maureen Taylor

Chapter Eleven: Engaging with Latin America and the Latino Communities in Public Relations and Advertising Courses

Juan Mundel, Eshter Quintero and Maria De Moya

Chapter Twelve: Internationalizing Public Relations from the Global South: ‘Thinking Globally, Acting Locally’

B. Sibango and Morafe Tabane

Chapter Thirteen: Adapting to Different Familial Experiences in Internationalized Classrooms

Seokhoon Ahn

Chapter Fourteen: Examining the Intercultural Outcomes of Internationalized Education in the Arabian Peninsula

Marta Tryzna, Mariam Alkazemi and Fahed Al-Sumait

Chapter Fifteen: Transnational and Postcolonial Turn: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy

Ahmet Atay

Chapter Sixteen: The Value of a Fulbright: Internationalizing Education One Person at a Time

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Chapter Seventeen: The Three Pillars of Short Course Abroad Experiences

Ismael Lopez Medel

Part III: Internationalization Promising Practices: Sample Syllabi, Critical Incidents, and Activities

Chapter Eighteen: Connecting Local and Global Communication Contexts in the Classroom: Intercultural Engagements with University and K-12 Students

Eddah Mutua

Chapter Nineteen: Internationalizing the Communication Classroom via Technology and Curricular Strategy: Pedagogical Takeaways from a Three-way Online Collaboration Project

Rita Koris, Sushil K. Oswal and Zsuzsanna B. Palmer

Chapter Twenty: Translating Tasks for International Classroom

Rebecca M. Townsend and Trudy Milburn

Chapter Twenty-One: "Distance Alienates Us, But Media Brings Us Together": Internationalized Activities in a Media Studies Course

Barbara Ruth Burke and Liene Locmele

Chapter Twenty-Two: Internationalizing Organizational Communication

Ann Rogerson and Celeste Rossetto

Chapter Twenty-Three: Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum: Face-to-Face Communication

Tessa van Charldorp, Marije van Braak and Aranka Akkermans

Chapter Twenty-Four: Thriving in the Globalized Communication Environment: Teaching Resilience to Digital Culture Shock

Kate Dunsmore