Dec 12, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

Writing, Design, and Technical Communication, B.A. – Online


About the Writing, Design, and Technical Communication Bachelor’s Program


The Writing, Design, and Technical Communication B.A. can be taken onsite or online.

The Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Design, and Technical Communication will provide a broad liberal arts background and intensive training in the principles and practices of technical communication. It will prepare students for careers as technical communicators, editors, grant writers, website developers, information architects, and publications managers in a variety of professional domains, including publishing, education, government, health care, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It also will prepare students for graduate education in technical communication as well as in law, business, science, and medicine.

The Writing, Design, and Technical Communication program requires 120 semester credit hours consisting of the core curriculum, 33 hours in a major field, and a required minor.

Requirements


II. 3000-Level


One of the following:

Four of the following:

(Note: ENGL 3366  may be used only once.)

III. 4000-Level


Communication Literacy


Students pursuing a degree in technical communication will engage with communication and literacy in a range of contexts. In order to complete the breadth of communication literacy contexts required for the profession, students will choose from courses in five different communication literacy categories:

Sample Curriculum


First Year


Fall

Total: 15

Spring

Total: 15

Second Year


Fall

Total: 16

Spring

Total: 14

Third Year


Fall

Total: 16

Spring

Total: 16

Fourth Year


Fall

Total: 15

Spring

Total: 13

Total Hours: 120


* Select from the university’s Core Curriculum .

Multicultural Requirement

To satisfy the 3-hour multicultural requirement , select from the university’s multicultural list a course that also satisfies either the Language, Philosophy, and Culture, Creative Arts, or Social and Behavioral Sciences core requirement.

Foreign Language

A student must complete 6 hours at the sophomore level or above in a single language. The prerequisite for all sophomore language courses is credit for the freshman level. This credit can be determined through a credit by examination. The score attained on the exam will determine whether the student is placed in a second-year course, a 5-hour review course, or in some cases the first or second semester of a beginning (first-year) language course. See Arts & Sciences General Degree Requirements  for further explanation.