ENCM 3400 - Studies in Professional Communication

Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy: choosing media and genre, engaging effectively with context and audience, and achieving a clear purpose. To develop and practice capacity (as communicators) in specific vocational and civic/community contexts.

Content: Specific engagement with particular forms of communication and specific professional and organizational contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Organizational Writing; Small-group Communication; Podcasting.

A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.

Taught: Annually

Credits: 4