Technical and Professional Writing Graduate Certificate

Program CIP Code

23.0101

Program Modality

• On-Ground

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Create effective workplace documents such as letters, emails, and memos
• Write effective technical documents such as training materials, instruction manuals, briefing reports, business plans, or other professional proposals or policies
• Demonstrate comprehension of current practices involved in today’s digital writing environments
• Demonstrate comprehension of the nuances of language and rhetoric in the workplace
• Demonstrate understanding of research methods and/or analysis techniques in the current literature in Technical and Professional Writing
• Apply desktop publishing skills to create marketing and PR materials using Powerpoint, Canva, or other software
• Discern shades of meaning in homonyms and commonly confused words
• Edit graphical items and objects
• Demonstrate understanding of social media techniques and strategies

Curriculum

• Technical and Professional Writing