06/28/2024

2025 CSCA Convention - Basic Course Interest Group ... Call for Submissions

Dear Basic Course Interest Group Members, 

I hope you are having a fantastic summer. We had a great Basic Communication Course Conference in Las Vegas, earlier this summer, and I’m hoping everyone is thinking of some great papers and panels for “Widening the Scope!” I wanted to send you two links as we look forward to the 2025 conference. The first is to the Call for Submissions and the second is an opportunity to volunteer for the Interest Group as a reviewer, respondent, or chair. Please consider helping plan an amazing conference. I look forward to seeing all the great work from our members. 

Call for Submissions- https://shorturl.at/T4b1J

Volunteer to be a Reviewer, Respondent, or Chair- https://forms.gle/nUoZSzgXBUxfhLc59

Best,

Joshua E. Young, PhD
Chair- Basic Course Interest Group
Central States Communication Association

BASIC COURSE INTEREST GROUP

Call for Submissions

Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Annual Convention-Cincinnati, OH

April 1-6, 2025

Widening the Scope

The Basic Course Interest Group invites the submission of competitive papers, panels, roundtable discussions, and innovative programming for the 2025 CSCA convention in Cincinnati, OH. The purpose of the Basic Course Interest Group is to promote and highlight the most promising research and pedagogy related to the foundational communication course. A range of topics encompassing foundational communication course teaching, administration, and research are welcome, and we especially encourage members to address issues related to the convention theme, “Widening the Scope.”

The conference theme, “Widening the Scope,” offers many different ways to approach conference submissions this year. Scholars submitting to the Basic Course Interest Group should consider ways we may widen the impact or representation of the foundational communication course in general education curricula and communication departments. They should also consider the way we widen the scope for equity and inclusion across and within groups of people who have been excluded as students, colleagues, and course constituents. Finally, scholars should find ways to collaborate with those across and outside the discipline. Panel proposals should consider including opportunities for collaboration with other interest groups of CSCA within the rationale of their proposal. Completed papers, discussion panels, and paper panels shall be considered for conference planning.

Submissions must be received by 11:59 PM, CDT, October 5, 2024.

 Completed Papers:

• Only completed papers will be
• Please make sure to remove all personal identification information (author name(s), ) from the manuscript and from the document properties prior to submission.
• Include a title and a brief abstract (required).
  • Abstracts should be no longer than 250
• If you would like your paper to be considered for the Inclusive Scholarship Award, type “INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP” in the upper right-hand corner of the title page.
  • To be considered as an exemplar of inclusive scholarship, the paper must demonstrate academic rigor in the examination of communication and centralize historically marginalized communities/populations.
  • Please clearly articulate, in at least one paragraph in your abstract, how the respective scholarship explicitly addresses equity and inclusion.
  • The paper receiving the interest group award for Inclusive Scholarship shall be forwarded for consideration for the CSCA Inclusive Scholarship Award.
• Graduate students should type “STUDENT” on the upper right-hand corner of the title page. These papers will be considered for Top Student Paper for the Interest Group.
  
  
  • If this is the first submitted paper by a graduate student to CSCA, please type “DEBUT STUDENT” in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. These papers will be considered in the pool of papers for the Top Student Paper for the Interest Group and the Top Debut Student Paper will be forwarded for consideration in the CSCA Past Officers Debut Paper Award.
    • To be considered a graduate student debut paper:
    • the author must be a graduate student,
    • the paper must have single authorship, and
    • the paper must be the author’s first paper to be presented at CSCA
• All Paper submissions shall be eligible for the Top Paper Award of the Basic Course Interest Group.

Discussion and Paper Panel Proposals:

• A title, description, and rationale is required for discussion and paper panel
  • Descriptions should be no longer than 100 words
  • A rationale should be no longer than 500 words (not inclusive of references).
• Paper panel proposals should include a chair, 3-5 presenters, a proposed respondent, and an abstract for each paper being presented in the proposed paper panel.
  • Make sure to list the participants, their affiliation, and contact information
  • Abstracts for papers included in paper panel proposals should be limited to no more than 250 words per abstract.
• Discussion panel proposals should include a chair and 3-5 Discussion panel proposals should include central questions posed for discussion and an explanation of how they will foster audience participation.
  • Make sure to list the participants, their affiliation, and contact information
  • A description/rationale of each presenter’s contribution should be included and be no longer than 150 words for each presentation.
• Preference will be given to those panel proposals with panelists representing multiple institutions rather than representing a single institution.
• All discussion and paper panel proposals will be considered for the Melissa Beall Top Panel Award of the Basic Course Interest Group.

To submit, scholars should create a profile in the CSCA online submissions system (https://ww4.aievolution.com/csc2501/). Membership is not required to submit, but use of the online submission system is.

All technology requests must be made at the time of submission. CSCA’s Technology Policy may be found here (https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/avpolicy).

Questions about conference submissions for the Basic Course Interest Group or upcoming interest group business should be directed to Joshua E. Young, interest group chair, at joyoung@dwci.edu

Submissions must be received by 11:59 PM, CDT, October 5, 2024.