CE Course Schedule
Course Listings as of November 21, 2009 at 7:30pm
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.
11 96864 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH Crocker, Amanda L
x 96865 Aug 25 - Dec 10 7:05pm - 8:15p TTh NRG 4209 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.
2 96866 Aug 24 - Dec 13 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.
11 96867 Aug 24 - Dec 13 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.
11 96868 Oct 19 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
10 96853 Oct 20 - Dec 10 6:00pm - 8:50p TTh RGC 229 OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
ETWR 1091 Technical Writing Introduction
(48.0 hours/$168.00)
Principles, techniques, and skills needed to conduct scientific, technical, or business writing. Instruction in the writing of reports, letters, and other exercises applicable to a wide range of disciplines and careers. Emphasis on clarity, conciseness, and accuracy of expression. Research techniques, information design, effective use of graphics, and preparation and presentation of oral reports will be covered. Integrated with college credit ENGL 2311.
2 96856 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH Butler, Wayne M
1 96855 Aug 26 - Dec 9 7:05pm - 9:45p W CYP 2232 OH Crocker, Amanda L
x 96854 Aug 29 - Dec 12 9:00am -11:40a S NRG 4209 OH Barkley, Roy R
15 96857 Sep 21 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH McMurrey, David A
ETWR 2072 Technical Publications 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.
10 96858 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH McMurrey, David A
ETWR 2073 XHTML and CSS for Information Specialists
(64.0 hours/$224.00)
Workshop-style course in which students study the concept of hypertext; learn structuring principles and navigation tools common in online information; create web pages using XHTML and CSS; get an introduction to web-page development tools such as Dreamweaver; and overview documentation trends such as structured authoring, single-sourcing, and XML. Integrated with college credit ETWR 2473.
x 96859 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE 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.
x 96860 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH McMurrey, David A
x 96861 Aug 24 - Dec 7 7:05pm - 9:55p M 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.
10 96862 Aug 24 - Dec 13 ONLINE OH McMurrey, David A
x 96863 Aug 26 - Dec 9 7:05pm - 9:55p W NRG 4209 OH McMurrey, David A
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