Learning Objectives: Technical Communication & Rhetoric
For the Technical Communication and Rhetoric Emphasis in the department’s BA/BS degrees, the three key Learning Objectives are:
- Demonstrates technological literacy by demonstrating that they keep up with technology trends in the field and are able to learn new technologies quickly and effectively
- Demonstrates rhetorical literacy by showing evidence of understanding rhetorical situations and the factors that can cause messages to succeed or fail; perceiving rhetoric at work in their stories and examples; and communicating their own abilities
- Demonstrates ethical literacy by discussing impacts of their work beyond the assignment or classroom, especially among underrepresented users and audiences; demonstrating a responsibility for how others experience and are affected by their work; being attuned to perpetuating or rejecting oppressive structures; articulating a code of ethics; showing empathy and self-reflexivity; and/or calling attention to matters of