CE Course Schedule

Course Listings as of July 04, 2008 at 2:30pm

Technical Communications

Technical Communications Certificate You can earn a Continuing Education Certificate in Technical Communication by completing 6 courses from the Business & Technical Communications program and a capstone portfolio project.The entire certificate program and all individual courses are available online.For details, see the Continuing Education Technical Communication Certificate at http://www.austincc.edu/tcm/ce.html or contact David McMurrey at 512.223.4804 or davidm@austincc.edu. ETWR 1072 Grammar/Style for the Technical Writer (48.0 hours/$168.00)
A study of the principles of an effective professional or technical style, stressing clarity, exactness, and readability. Topics include a review of grammar and punctuation, an introduction to copy editing, and editing and revision skills. Integrated with college credit ETWR 1372. Prerequisites: Program coordinator approval.

  3 92031 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Crocker, Amanda L

ETWR 1073 Correspondence for Government and Business Employees (48.0 hours/$168.00)
Focuses business correspondence through common media (business letters, memos, e-mail, and reports), across organizational hierarchies (coworkers at lower, same, and higher organizational levels), and based in typical situations (good news, bad news, policy and schedule changes, information requests, reprimands, rationales, denials, justifications, and other tricky business-communication situations). Emphasizes clear, tactful, succinct, direct, well-structured writing that gets the job done. Integrated with college credit ETWR 1373.

  3 92044 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH McNeely, Sarah E

ETWR 1074 Graphics for Business, Government and Technical Information (48.0 hours/$162.00)
Focusing on graphics commonly required of technical writers, this course begins with rhetorical principles relating to graphic design; challenges students to envision graphics for plain text; introduces software such as Photoshop for editing graphics; includes techniques for importing and positioning graphics into desktop publishing software such as FrameMaker and Word; introduces editing existing hardware vector graphics; provides practice creating relatively simple graphics such as geometrical, conceptual, and flowchart-type graphics using applications such as CorelDraw, Illustrator, or AutoCAD; and provides a thorough introduction to scalable vector graphics (SVG). Integrated with college credit ETWR 1374.

  3 92045 Aug 25 - Dec 10    5:40pm - 6:55p MW       NRG 4209    OH Mogull, Scott A
  3 92046 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Mogull, Scott A

ETWR 1076 Grant Proposals and Business Plans (48.0 hours/$168.00)
A study of two important forms of the proposal: the grant proposal and the new-business plan (also known as business prospectus). Students learn how to find grants, analyze their requirements, and then write a successful grant proposal. Students also plan a business startup, do funding and marketing research for it, and then write a business plan promoting the startup to potential investors. Integrated with college credit ETWR 1376.

  3 92051 Oct 20 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
  3 92052 Oct 21 - Dec 11    5:40pm - 8:10p TTh      RGC 229        Staff

ETWR 1091 Special Topics in English Technical and Business Writing (0.0 hours/$0.00)
Topics address recently identified current events, skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes and behaviors pertinent to the technology or occupation and relevant to the professional development of the student. This course was designed to be repeated multiple times to improve student proficiency.

 12 90458 Jul  7 - Aug 11    6:00pm -10:00p MW       NRG 4209       Staff
  2 92033 Aug 25 - Dec 10    4:15pm - 5:30p MW       NRG 4209    OH Klau, Robert S
  2 92034 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Butler, Wayne M
  2 92035 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Butler, Wayne M
  2 92037 Aug 25 - Dec  8   12:00pm - 2:30p M        NRG 4209    OH Klau, Robert S
  2 92036 Aug 26 - Dec 11    4:15pm - 5:30p TTh      NRG 4209    OH Babcock, Jaime L
  2 92038 Aug 27 - Dec 10   12:00pm - 2:30p W        NRG 4209    OH Klau, Robert S
  2 92040 Aug 27 - Dec 10    7:05pm - 9:45p W        CYP 1108    OH Eakman-Strout, Elizabeth A
  2 92039 Aug 29 - Dec 12    9:00am -11:40a F        NRG 4209    OH Pruett, David A
  2 92041 Aug 30 - Dec 13    9:00am -11:40a S        NRG 4209    OH Barkley, Roy R
  2 92032 Sep 22 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH McMurrey, David A

ETWR 2072 Book-Length Documents with Adobe FrameMaker (64.0 hours/$216.00)
Workshop-style course in which students use Adobe FrameMaker to practice the structure and design of user documents; create fully "automated" book-length technical documents complete with automated tables of contents, indexes, table and figure numbers, and cross-references; and learn other FrameMaker features for rapid updating. Emphasis on teamwork and the project title in addition to organization, format, and style of printed technical documents. Integrated with college credit ETWR 2472.

  3 92048 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH Williams, Joe D
  3 92047 Aug 26 - Dec 11    8:20pm -10:00p TTh      NRG 4209    OH Williams, Joe D

ETWR 2074 Online Helps and Help-Authoring Tools for Technical Writers (48.0 hours/$168.00)
Workshop-style course in which students study the evolution and function of online helps; critique existing online helps; learn structuring principles and navigation tools common in online helps; create online helps using several leading online help-authoring tools such as RoboHELP, Flare and AuthorIT; and write their own online helps for a software product. Integrated with college credit ETWR 2374.

  3 92050 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH McMurrey, David A
  3 92049 Aug 26 - Dec 11    5:40pm - 6:55p TTh      NRG 4209    OH McMurrey, David A

POFT 1007 Editing Government, Business and Technical Information (48.0 hours/$168.00)
Instruction in proofreading and editing skills necessary to assure accuracy in business documents as well as technical documents. Designed to give students a working understanding of the role of the technical editor as collaborator and decision maker in the entire publication process. Topics include online editing, revising, hypertext, graphics, visual design, and project estimating. Integrated with college credit ETWR 2379.

  3 92042 Aug 25 - Dec  8    7:05pm - 9:55p M        NRG 4209    OH McMurrey, David A
  3 92043 Aug 25 - Dec 14                            ONLINE      OH McMurrey, David A

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