Jun 06, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin

Technical and Professional Writing Graduate Certificate


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Signify expertise in Technical and Professional Writing through the Technical and Professional Writing Graduate Certificate. This certificate requires nine (9) credit hours of graduate-level coursework in Technial and Professional Writing seminars, internships, or professional writing internships.

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

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