Technical Communication and Emergent Media

The purpose of Writing Studies is to equip students with rhetorical reading and writing skills necessary for college, the workplace, and beyond. Focusing on the negotiations between authors, texts, and media, students reflect on their own writing practices in context of course readings and independent research. Emphasis is on using instructor and peer feedback to develop effective writing habits, including pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and documenting sources.

This course presents an introduction to the major in Technical Communication and Emergent Media and the related disciplines and professions. Students explore the rhetorical situations of technical communication through various genres including reports, workplace and employment documentation, presentations, and visual communication. Emphasis is placed on the media forms and intercultural contexts of technical communication.

This course is the first of a two semester sequence in statistics. It covers mainly descriptive techniques such as data collection, organization techniques, measures of center, spread, and position. Other topics covered include: probability, probability distributions (such as normal and binomial distributions), correlation, and regression. Students cannot earn credit for MATH 1123 if they have credit for MATH 1203, MATH 2124, or MATH 7123. A grade of C or better is required to take MATH 2133 - Statistics II.