2 Days/Wk
This course schedule is designed for a three-credit course meeting twice a week with approximately 75 minutes per class period and 24-26 students. It contains four units: Introduction to Interviewing, Informational Interviewing, Persuasive Interviewing, and Employment Interviewing.
| Period | Topic | Assignment |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course and to Interviewing (Ch 1) | |
| 2 | The Interviewing Process (Ch 2), Structuring the Interview (Ch 3) | Analysis of Sample Interview; Quiz on Openings |
| 3 | Structuring Interviews | Quiz on Closings, Analysis of Sample Interview, Ice Breaker Interviews |
| 4 | Types and Uses of Questions (Ch 4) | Quiz on Types of Questions and Probing Answers |
| 5 | Phrasing and Sequencing Questions, Common Pitfalls, Assign Skill Building "probing" Interviews | Quizzes on Phrasing Questions and Common Pitfalls, Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 6 | Skill Building "Probing" Interviews |
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| 8 | Examination over Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
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| 9 | Information-Giving Interviews, Assign Filed Projects due at Mid Semester (Ch 12) | Oral Exercise in Transmitting Information |
| 10 | Survey Interviews: preparation, sampling, structure, question strategies, and scales (Ch 6) | |
| 11 | Journalistic/Probing Interviews: interviewer skills, assign informational interviews (Ch 5) | |
| 12 | Journalistic/Probing Interviews: interviewer responses (Ch 11), interviewee skills (Ch 5) | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 13 | Informational Interviews |
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| 15 | Examination over Chapters 5, 6, and parts of 11 and 12 | |
| 16 | Persuasive Interviews: ethics of persuasion, five interrelated conditions, assign persuasive interviews (Ch 7) | |
| 17 | Persuasive Interviews: analyzing and adapting to the interviewee (Ch 7) | |
| 18 | Persuasive Interviews: structuring and conducting the persuasive interview, being and active/critical interviewee (Ch 7) | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 19 | Persuasive Interviews |
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| 22 | Employment Interviews: EEO laws and guidelines, assign employment interviews, structuring and conducting the interview (Ch 8) | |
| 23 | Employment Interviews: employer questions (Ch 8), personal analysis, homework, resumes, cover letters (Ch 9) | |
| 24 | Employment Interviews: taking part in the interview, responses to unlawful questions, applicant questions (Ch 9) | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 25 | Employment Interviews |
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| 28 | Course Wrap Up | Instructor Evaluations |
| 29 | Examination over Chapters 7, 8, and 9 |
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Note: This daily schedule was adapted from the sample schedule found in the Instructor's Manual accompanying Interviewing: Principles and Practices (authored by Charles J. Steward and William B. Cash, Jr.).
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