3 Days/Wk
This course syllabus is designed for a three-hours-per-week, one-semester course with twenty-four to twenty-six students. It contains the four units most applicable to students from a wide variety of academic majors: Introduction to Interviewing, Informational Interviewing, Persuasive Interviewing, and Employment Interviewing.
The employment interviewing unit is last because students should be introduced to all interviewing principles relevant to the employment situation before studying and taking part in practice interviews. We discuss information getting, information giving, and the elements of persuasive interviewing first because all of these roles are played when taking part in employment interviews as either employer or applicant. The employment interview, then, is the culmination of all that has been learned during the semester.
The quizzes in the syllabus are used for class discussion and analysis. They are not graded quizzes.
| Period | Topic | Assignment |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course and to Interviewing (Ch 1) | |
| 2 | The Interview Process (Ch 2) | Analysis of a Sample Interview |
| 3 | Structuring Interviews (Ch 3) | Quiz on Openings and Closings; Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 4 | Types of Questions and their Uses (Ch 4) | Ice Breaker Interviews |
| 5 | Secondary (Probing) Questions (Ch 5) | Quiz on Types of Questions and use of Probing Questions |
| 6 | Phrasing and Sequencing Questions (Ch 4) | Quiz on Question Sequences, Phrasing Questions, and Common Pitfalls |
| 7 | Assign skills building "probing" interviews, analysis of sample recorded interviews | |
| 8 | Skill Building "Probing" Interviews |
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| 11 | Examination over Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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| 12 | Information-Giving Interviews (Ch 12) | Oral Exercise in Transmitting Information |
| 13 | Survey Interviews: preparation, sampling, and structure (Ch 6) | |
| 14 | Survey Interviews: question strategies and scales (Ch 6); Assign field project due at mid-semester | |
| 15 | Journalistic/Probing Interviews: interviewer skills (Ch 5); Assign Informational Interviews | |
| 16 | Journalistic/Probing Interviews: question skills, interviewer responsibilities (Chs 5 and 11) | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 17 | Journalistic/Probing Interviews: interviewee skills (Ch 5) | |
| 18 | Informational Interviews |
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| 22 | Examination over Chapters 5, 6, and parts of 11 and 12 |
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| 23 | Persuasive Interviews: ethics of persuasion, five interrelated conditions, assign persuasive interviews (Ch 7) | |
| 24 | Persuasive Interviews: analyzing and adapting to the interviewee (Ch 7) | |
| 25 | Persuasive Interviews: structuring and conducting the persuasive interview (Ch 7) | |
| 26 | Persuasive Interviews: being and active/critical interviewee (Ch 7) | |
| 27 | Persuasive Interviews: concluding discussions (Ch 7) | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 28 | Persuasive Interviews |
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| 33 | Employment Interviews: EEO Laws and guidelines, assign employment interviews (Ch 8) | |
| 34 | Employment Interviews: structuring and conducting the interview, employer questions (Ch 8) | Questions Quiz |
| 35 | Employment Interviews: personal analysis, homework, resumes, and cover letters (Ch 9) | |
| 36 | Employment Interviews: taking part in the interview (Ch 9) | |
| 37 | Employment Interviews: responses to unlawful questions, applicant's questions (Ch 9) | |
| 38 | Employment Interviews: concluding discussion | Analysis of Sample Interview |
| 39 | Employment Interviews |
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| 44 | Course Wrap-up | Instructor Evaluation |
| 45 | 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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