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Course Offerings in Technical Communication

Undergraduate

Tentative 2-year Schedule of Course Offerings

ENGL 202 Technical Communication (a service course, not part of the technical communication emphasis)
ENGL 302 Technical Rhetoric
ENGL 312 Technical Communication Applications
ENGL 403 Technical Editing
ENGL 405 Print Document Production
ENGL 415 On-Screen Document Production
ENGL 499 Senior Seminar in Technical Communication

Graduate

Tentative 2-year Schedule of Course Offerings

Upcoming Course Offerings

Required Courses

• ENGL 511 Introductory Seminar in Technical Communication
• ENGL 512 Technical Rhetoric and Applications
• ENGL 513 Technical Editing
• ENGL 514 Technical Communication Ethics
• ENGL 515 Visual Rhetoric and Information Design
• ENGL 516 Topics in Print Document Production
• ENGL 517 Oral Communication for Technical Communicators
• ENGL 521 Topics in On-screen Document Production
• ENGL 590 Internship

Elective Courses

• ENGL 516 Topics in Print Document Production
  Topics vary. May be repeated once for elective credit. Recent course offerings have been the following:
  • The Document Production Process
  • Print Document Production
• ENGL 518 Writing Software Documentation
• ENGL 519 Technical Publications Management
• ENGL 521 Topics in On-screen Document Production
  Topics vary. May be repeated once for elective credit. Recent course offerings have been the following:
  • Advanced Web Page Implementation
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Online Help Systems
  • Web-Based Training
  • XML Development
• ENGL 591 Project
• ENGL 593 Thesis
• ENGL 597 Special Topics Recent course offerings have been the following:
  • Questioning Information Technologies: Issues of Access, Equity, Privacy, and Safety
  • Rhetoric of Science
  • Usability Testing
  • XML/XHTML

Revised 2 May 2006.