WRIT 8540 is also offered in Spring 2024
WRIT 8540 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | WRIT 8540 Section 001: Seminar in Technical Communication and Composition Pedagogies -- Technical Communication Pedagogy (65259)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Nolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 229
- Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics may include theories of pedagogy or research studies that inform the classroom or workplace, social and ethical concerns, landmark studies, current controversies. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Topic: Technical Communication Pedagogy Description: This seminar will address technical communication pedagogy in three areas: (1) teaching a general technical writing and communication "service course" (2) exploring ways to integrate advocacy and community-engaged learning in technical writing and communication courses and (3) thinking about designing curriculum for degree programs and/or majors involving technical communication. Teaching the General Technical Writing and Communication Course Students will review scholarship of teaching related to the "service course" of technical communication, including topics such as defining technical communication and writing, exploring the roots of composition in technical communication, reviewing workplace practices, facilitating collaboration, practicing multimodality, emphasizing and integrating social justice and advocacy, designing for usability and accessibility. Students will design technical communication assignments and units. Exploring Advocacy and Community-Engaged Learning Students will review scholarship that examines how social justice in technical communication contributes to advocacy-based pedagogy that values audience voices and participatory design. Students will explore ways to design technical writing and communication assignments that may engage communities in participatory information design. Reinvigorating technical communication major and curriculum We will take time to examine our own Technical Writing and Communication major in the department as well as several other national programs. We will invite program directors at various institutions, explore contemporary topics of technical communicators in the workplace, review strategies for building curriculum. Students will interact with program or workplace leaders and sketch curricular maps of technical communication programs.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65259/1243
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