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ENGL-4474: Special Topics in Professional and Technical Writing

Description: Advanced, variable-content course that explores a significant or emergent professional & technical writing issue. Examines relevant theories and historical contexts to analyze relationships among rhetoric, culture, access, and power. Identifies common themes and approaches and applies these themes and approaches, shaped by current theories, to professional and technical writing projects. Individual sections focus on differing areas of professional and technical writing (to be specified in the subtitle of the course). May be repeated twice with different content for a maximum of nine credit hours. Pre: Junior Standing.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: COMM-1016 or ENGL-1106

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Repeatability: up to 9 credit hours

Sections Taught: 0

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