Technical Communication Skills

Undergraduate

Introductory lectures and workshops on technical writing and instruction, followed by supervised instruction of first-year Physics students in PHYS-1500, and projects in writing resumes and technical manuals and in preparing a multimedia computer module for a problem area in physics instruction. The computer module can employ any suitable combination of Maple, C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Java. (Prerequisite: PHYS-1500.) (2 lecture, 2 laboratory honours a week.