SC11: Living, Learning, and Teaching Friendship Communication: Facilitating Continuities and Changes in Private and Public Lives

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Communicating with friends is a routine and unique human behavior. Participants will be introduced to ideas for teaching and researching friendship communication. Topics include dialectics, dialogues, narratives, similarities, differences, and ethical and political potentials of friendship. Course participants will receive resources for teaching friendship communication as an entire undergraduate or graduate course or as units in other courses, including a copy of The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues by William K. Rawlins (Sage, 2009).

Sub Unit

• Short Courses

Presenters

• William Rawlins, Ohio University

• Elaine Jenks, West Chester Univ

Session Organizer

• Elaine Jenks, West Chester Univ