Using Project Groups to Achieve Pedagogical Objectives in Graduate Courses: Balancing Stability and Change

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This roundtable will engage professors and graduate students in a discussion of the pedagogical, ethical, and practical issues involved when scholars intertwine their own research projects into a graduate course requirement. This practice allows the professor to use the immediacy and authenticity of an ongoing research project to meet course objectives, using the project to teach research skills required in the contemporary environment, but it should also provide students with the opportunity for independent analysis.

Sub Unit

• Group Communication Division

Chair

• Anne Nicotera, George Mason Univ

Presenters

• Kristen Willett, George Mason Univ

• Megan Tucker, George Mason Univ

• Daniel L. Walsch, George Mason University

Respondents

• Austin Babrow, Ohio University

• Lynn Harter, Ohio University

• David Seibold, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue University

Session Organizer

• LaKesha Anderson, George Mason Univ