Library Course Assessment for a Dialogue Minor in the School of Communication

CMNS 332 | 432 | 479
CMNS/DIAL 460 | 461
Total Costs
Introduction

This is the Library's assessment for a proposed Dialogue Minor by the School of Communication. The Dialogue Minor will focus on the relationship of dialogue with public issues. The program will share resources, guest speakers, common events, and programs with the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue.

CMNS 332 -- Communication and Rhetoric

This course will first be offered in the Summer of 2007 and annually thereafter on the Burnaby Campus. It was previously offered as a special topics course in the Summer of 2003 as CMNS 286 with an enrollment of 66. It will be an elective course.

The Library is actively collecting in these areas and has all of the materials provided on the reading list.

No additional resources will be required.

Note: The materials required for this course are located in the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby campus.  This assessment is based on the understanding that the course will be offered at SFU’s Burnaby campus.  If the course was to be offered at SFU Surrey or Harbour Centre, or as an off-campus course, additional library costs would be incurred.

CMNS 432 -- Public Opinion, Propaganda and Political Communication

This course will first be offered in the Fall of 2006 and annually thereafter on the Burnaby Campus. It was previously offered as a special topics course in the summer of 2004 and 2005 with enrollments between 20 and 25. This will be an elective course.

The Library is actively collecting in these areas and has all of the materials provided on the reading list.

No additional resources will be required.

Note: The materials required for this course are located in the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby campus.  This assessment is based on the understanding that the course will be offered at SFU’s Burnaby campus.  If the course was to be offered at SFU Surrey or Harbour Centre, or as an off-campus course, additional library costs would be incurred.

CMNS/DIAL 460 -- Seminar in Dialogue and Public Issues

This course will first be offered in the Fall of 2006 at the SFU Vancouver Campus and annually thereafter with an expected enrollment of 20 students. This is a required course for the Dialogue minor.

The following books on the reading list are not in the Belzberg collection and will need to be acquired:

Altheide, David L. An ecology of communication : cultural formats of control / David L. Altheide. (Communication & social order) Aldine de Gruyter/Walter de Gruyter. 0202305325. N6-898237. 1995. US. $56

Asher, Nicholas. Logics of conversation (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge University Press (UK). 0521650585. L0-632639. 2003. UK. $100

Kolb, Deborah M. When talk works : profiles of mediators (Jossey-Bass Management series Jossey-Bass conflict resolution series) New Lexington Press. 0787910902. N1-986216. 1997. US. Paper. $48

The transformative power of dialogue / edited by Nancy C. Roberts. (Research in public policy analysis & management, v.12) JAI Press/Elsevier Science Pub. 0762309040. R3-334744. 2002. US. $104

Monographs sub-total: $308
 These books can be purchased within the exisitng allocation to support Dialogue Programs at the SFU Vancouver campus. The Library will also obtain the extended bibliography for this course and acquire all titles on the list for the Belzberg Library with existing funds.

In addition, the existing SFU Library book collection was assessed using Library of Congress subject headings for the topics covered for these courses. Related subject headings and our holdings are listed below. Holdings at the SFU Vancouver campus are in parentheses.

Communication 522 (16)
Communication and culture 92 (2)
Communication -- Philosophy 71 (3)
Dialogue 78 (2)
Dialogue analysis 23 (10)
Mediation 50 (4)
Negotiation 121 (11)
Persuasion rhetoric 81 (5)
Public Opinion 103 (2)
Rhetoric 220 (4)

This course will put greater demand on the Library resources on dialogue at the Belzberg Library. An allocation exists in the Belzberg Library budget to purchase material on dialogue. The needs of this course will be taken into consideration.

Serials:

The serials holdings at the SFU library are sufficient to support this course. The following journals will be of particular interest:

Other courses

There are no library costs associated with the remaining courses in the program:
CMNS 479 Directed Study
CMNS/DIAL 461 Field Placement

Total Costs:

There are no additional Library costs for this program