Major/compulsory course

This course is designed to develop interviewing skills among stundts. After the completion of this course the students will be able to develop research instruments being used in the field of Agricultural Extension and Development Studies and will also be able to conduct interviews in field situations.

Theory

1. Interviewing Interviewing as Dyadic communication: its uses in Agricultural Extension Education
2. Informal face to face communication and its application in Agricultural Extension
3. The interviewing process.Structure of interview
4. Types of questions and their uses
5. Planning, conducting and interpreting various types of interviews: briefing, probing, selection, performance appraisal and discipline, counseling, persuasive, press conference and broadcast interviews
6. Principles and techniques of conducting interviews
7. The interview guide and the interview schedule.
8. Types of questions to be asked in interviews
9. Criteria for phrasing questions and question sequences

Practical

Students will plan and conduct interviews in the class in a simulated situation, interviews will be recorded and discussed in the class.

Pre-requisite:   Nill

Recommended Books

1. Broadwell, M.M. 1990. Interviewing skills. The New Supervisor (4 ed.) Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Inc, New York.
2. McDowell, E.E. 1991. Interviewing Practices for Technical Writers. Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. New York.
3. Joseph, A, D.  2012. The interpersonal communication. Peaorson publishers.

Suggested Books

1. Perkins, P. S. 2008. The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace. Wiley Publishers: USA.

2. Wilmot, W. W. 2009. Dyadic communication. Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Inc, New York.