Undergraduate Course Catalog 2015-2016
College of Liberal Arts
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Technical Writing and Public Speaking Cognate
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The cognate in technical writing and public speaking (TWPS) offers students intensive instruction in oral and written communication as important means of addressing technical, professional, or practical problems whose solutions require others' cooperation. Students learn practical precepts for analyzing those "communication situations" and for making informed, strategic decisions when composing oral and written responses in response to them. Students also undergo extensive practice creating standard and, thus, widely applicable forms of spoken and written communication. All students acquire a foundation in effective expression by taking introductory courses in public speaking and in professional and technical writing. Students then build upon that foundation and complete the cognate with one advanced course in either public speaking or professional and technical writing. This cognate is attractive to students who recognize that effective expression is valued in nearly any field of endeavor they are likely to pursue in their post-graduate lives.
Requirements
12 credits (3 courses)
Two introductory courses:
CMN 500, Public Speaking
ENGL 502, Professional and Technical Writing
One advanced course:
CMN 600, Public Speaking as a Civic Art
or
ENGL 602, Advanced Professional and Technical Writing
Please contact John T. Kirkpatrick for additional information, ted.kirkpatrick@unh.edu, (603) 862-2062, 110 Murkland Hall.
