To fulfill the elective requirements, you may take additional graduate courses in technical communication or other disciplines. You are encouraged to acquire expertise in an additional technical field, such as a business or engineering discipline or computer science, though you may already have acquired that expertise through undergraduate course work or job experience. The elective courses in technical communication are listed below along with their prerequisites. Selected prerequisites may be waived or taken concurrently with the consent of your committee.
- ENGL 501 The Teaching of Writing
- ENGL 505 Linguistics
- ENGL 518 Writing Software Documentation
- ENGL 519 Technical Publications Management
- ENGL 562 Theories of Rhetoric
- ENGL 585 Selected Topics in Linguistics
- ENGL 591 Project
- ENGL 592 Portfolio
- ENGL 593 Thesis
- ENGL 597 Special Topics
Each of the following required courses may be repeated once for elective credit: