“…The experiences of four decades have resulted in a tradition in the communication discipline that guides in integration efforts with other disciplines (see, for example, Cronin & Grice, 1993;Cronin, Grice, & Palmerton, 2000;Dannels, 2001: Dannels & Housley Gaffney, 2009Morreale, Shockley-Zalabak & Whitney, 1993;Steinfatt, 1986;Strohmeier, Novak, Stratton, & Leipzig, 1992;and Weiss, 1990). To date, studies of communication integrations are available for the disciplines of engineering (Dannels, 2002(Dannels, , 2003Dannels, Anson, Bullard, & Peretti, 2003;Darling, 2005;Darling & Dannels, 2003), design (Dannels, 2005;Dannels, Gaffney, & Martin, 2008;Dannels & Norris Martin, 2008;Housley Gaffney, 2015;Morton, 2006;Morton & O'Brien, 2005), public education (Smith, 2005), dietetics (Vrchota, 2011) and food science (Reitmeier & Vrchota, 2009;Vrchota, 2015a;Vrchota, 2015b).…”