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Teaching Public Communication
How can we help students communicate disciplinary knowledge meaningfully to audiences beyond the classroom?
Faculty from across disciplines are invited to join a year-long community of practice (CoP) focused on developing and strengthening approaches to teaching public communication in their courses.
Across six one-hour sessions, participants will share and explore teaching strategies and resources related to public communication, including disciplinary examples; multimodal communication; assignment design, reflection, and assessment; and ways to scaffold students’ development as public communicators. The CoP will also provide a space to discuss what’s happening in participants’ courses, troubleshoot challenges, and learn from each other’s experiences. As questions about student learning emerge, we’ll explore opportunities for individual or collaborative Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects.
Participants will also contribute assignments, activities, models, reflection prompts, assessment approaches, and other materials developed during the year toward a growing collection of resources for teaching public communication at TWU.
[The schedule for the Fall 2026 sessions will be posted here soon.] In-person attendance by Denton participants is strongly preferred, but a Zoom link will be shared with Dallas and Houston participants, as well as those who are unable to attend in person.
Applications form coming soon! We’re finalizing the meeting schedule, so applicants can review the dates before committing. The application will be posted here as soon as the schedule is confirmed. Please check back soon!
To support the 'community' in this community of practice, the QEP, and the growth of public communication at TWU, participants will do the following and (upon the completion of the CoP) receive a $600 stipend:
attend and participate in at least four of the six CoP sessions,*
submit the syllabus for the courses(s) in which they are teaching public communication,
submit at least one public communication assignment prompt used in the course,
submit student artifacts produced in response to the assignment for QEP assessment, and
share something from their CoP experience with colleagues in their department or program--in a format appropriate to their context (e.g., sharing an assignment or resource, giving a brief presentation, leading a discussion, contributing materials to a departmental resource collection).
Up to 15 faculty will be accepted.
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The CoP will be co-facilitated by Gretchen Busl (Professor of English, Director of TWU's "Amplify Your Impact" Quality Enhancement Plan) and Nancy Chick (Executive Director of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship in The Faculty Commons).
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