This article reports the results of a survey that assessed the status of intercultural communication instruction at U.S. colleges and universities. A questionnaire was designed to identify: the type of student taking intercultural communication courses, class assignments, methods of student evaluation, teaching methods, instructor qualifications, basic units of instruction, underlying approaches used in designing and teaching the course, the most widely used textbooks, and the demographic characteristics of institutions. A systematic sample of 387 speech communication departments was drawn from the SCA Directory. Survey results are summarized and future trends in intercultural communication instruction are discussed.
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Beebe et al. (1986) studied this question.