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Degree Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 30 degree credits taken over a minimum of two semesters. Five core courses must be completed by all students; five elective courses allow students to specialize in selected areas of professional and technical communication.

Students must design and maintain an ePortfolio of work completed within the courses. This work, organized around core competencies within each seminar in the program, will be reviewed by the instructional faculty every semester. In the final semester before graduation, students are required to take PTC 691 ePortfolio Capstone Seminar and make an oral presentation of their portfolio.

CORE COURSES:

15 credits:
PTC 601 Advanced Professional and Technical Communication (3 credits)
PTC 603 Cultural and Technological Change (3 credits)
PTC 604 Communication Theory and Research (3 credits)
PTC 605Elements of Visual Design (3 credits)
PTC 606Advanced Online Design (3 credits)

ePortfolio (required):

3 credits:
PTC 691 ePortfolio Capstone Seminar (0 credits)

ELECTIVE COURSES:

15 credits from:

PTC 610 Usability: User and Task Analysis (3 credits)
PTC 620 Proposal Writing (3 credits)
PTC 622 Working in Teams: Collaborative and Interpersonal Communications (3 credits)
PTC 624 Professional and Technical Editing (3 credits)
PTC 626 Hypertext Design Studio (3 credits)
PTC 631 Communication and Environmental Problem Solving (3 credits)
PTC 632 Content Management and Information Architecture (3 credits)
PTC 640 Health Communications (3 credits)
PTC 642 Corporate Communication (3 credits)
PTC 644 Communication in Technology Transfer and Innovation (3 credits)
PTC 650 Web Based Training Design (3 credits)
PTC 698 Selected Topics in Professional and Technical Communication (3 credits)
PTC 700 Master's Project (3 credits) - only taken after 21 credits of coursework
PTC 701 Master's Thesis (6 credits)
PTC 725 Independent Study in Professional and Technical Communication (3 credits)