Some said they skipped them because their students already understood the basic ideas from other coursework. Others wanted to feature theories generated by communication professionals rather than theorists from outside the discipline. Of course teachers who want to continue to assign a chapter that no longer appears in the 4th edition will find it unabridged in the Archives section of this webpage. The last edition switch caught me by surprise. The 4th edition will be current for a full three years.
Current plans are to change fewer theories than in the past.
You can have a voice in that decision by responding to the User Survey in this webpage. Depending on the nature of your program, yes. I created the First Look text for students with no prior comprehensive training in communication theory. All of us are novices until we ve benefited from a systematic exposure. More than half of the students who major in communication have not had a comprehensive course in communication theory.