Professional Communication: Rhetoric and Context

3 Credits

A skills-based course in speaking and writing in English for professional communicators adapting to a diversity of contexts, including business, health, law, politics, and science. Focus on diversifying the different contexts in which speaking and writing take place. Designed to develop an ability to adapt messages to a diversity of professional communication contexts, address the role of culture in adapting messages to a diversity of professional communication contexts, hone English speaking and writing skills based on a diversity of language registers, gain experience working with technical vocabulary, enhance analytical skills, strengthen research skills, enhance critical thinking skills, develop software technology skills.