Teaching Interpersonal Communication

• Instructional strategies and tips offer constructive methods for organizing the course and content, handling classroom challenges, establishing effective assignments, incorporating technology, considering service learning as part of the course, and developing meaningful forms of assessment.


• Excerpts from five essential readings provide a basic theoretical foundation for instructors as well as offer a frame for the course. Excerpted articles from Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson; Buber; Wiemann; Knapp and Vangelisti; and Baxter and Montgomery are included.


• An annotated bibliography comprising seventy-nine historic and current works of scholarship are featured in this bibliography, giving readers further avenues for expanding their knowledge of interpersonal communication and adding depth to the class.