Courses in Advanced Communication

Advanced communication courses are upper-level courses that emphasize written, oral, visual, and electronic communication. They include English 3020, 3090, 3120, and 3140.

English 3020: Business Communication

English 3020 is a course that covers the rhetorical concepts and strategies to successfully communicate individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual and electronic modes in business and professional situations. English 3020 emphasizes concepts such as audience analysis, building and maintaining goodwill, and positive emphasis. The course also emphasizes positive, informational, negative, and persuasive messages, proposals, and reports–all done with a focus on customer-oriented, managerial, and employment-related writing.

Note: English 3020H typically offered in the fall.

English 3090: Proposal and Report Writing

English 3090 is a course that covers the rhetorical concepts and processes to successfully communicate proposals and reports individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual and electronic modes. The course also covers audience analysis, research methods, design layouts, and drafting and revision procedures.

English 3120: Communicating Science and Public Engagement

English 3120 is a course that covers the rhetorical concepts and strategies to successfully communicate in disciplines in and related to science individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual and electronic modes. The course emphasizes analyzing and adapting to audiences, critically evaluating arguments, presenting and communicating data visually and ethically, writing collaboratively, and communicating and responding to skeptical audiences.

English 3140: Technical Communication

English 3140 is a course that covers the rhetorical concepts and processes to successfully communicate technical information individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual and electronic modes. The course emphasizes major strategies for analyzing audience and adapting messages to those audiences, as well as genres such as instructions, proposals, feasibility reports, progress reports, and technical descriptions.

Note: English 3140H is typically offered in the spring.