Course Description
As a technical professional, you will need to reach audiences and
collaborate on projects across borders of culture, language, and
technology. In this course, you will learn strategies for communicating
effectively in that context. The problems giving rise to communication
are muddled and multidimensional. To solve them, you must write
and speak as global citizens as well as global engineers or health
professionals or scientists. You may well have to communicate with
people who do not share your values, point of view, or disciplinary
knowledge. In addition, you need to understand how information technology
enables--and constrains--such communication. You'll write both about
and with that technology. Assignments in the course aim to simulate
on-the-job communication occasions. You'll prepare assignments both
individually and as a member of a team. In class, we'll discuss
the principles, forms, and techniques of technical communication
and work on specific tasks in the setting of a communication laboratory.
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