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PTC 601 - Advanced Professional and Technical Communication (Spring 2007)
Provides the foundation and direction for all Professional and Technical Communication coursework. This course introduces students to the profession and the academic discipline of technical/professional communication. Modules include usability analysis; visual information; ethics; global communication; report writing; information literacy; communicating with new technologies; and technical writing style. Students begin development of the MS-PTC ePortfolio.

PTC 605 - Elements of Visual Design (Spring 2007)
Provides an understanding of and competency in the visual presentation of information. Course integrates theories of design, techniques of composition, and technologies of electronic and print publishing. Modules include both design principles and hands-on practice in visual literacy, layout and design, and graphic tools. Design and updating of the MSPTC ePortfolio will be required in this seminar.

PTC 698 - Special Topics: Flash Animation (Summer 2007)
This course offers an introduction to the Flash multimedia authoring environment. It incorporates hands-on experience developing streaming Web-based multimedia presentations including animation, sound, and graphics with Flash Professional CS3. The emphasis of this course is on applying media design techniques to an authoring language framework to solve implementation problems and to enhance nonlinear content presentations.

PTC 603 - Cultural and Technological Change (Fall 2007)
Examines the complex ways in which technology constructs and is constructed by society, with emphasis on interrelationships between technology and communication. Discussions focus on how technological change is expressed in social and political movements, literature, art, architecture, and philosophy and how they, in turn, influence the future direction of technology.

PTC 624 - Professional and Technical Editing (Spring 2008)
Presents the theory and practice of editing professional and technical writing. Topics include correctness and conciseness, hard copy and on-line editing, editing graphics, document management, editor-author relationships, and ethical considerations in editing. Students edit writing samples from a variety of technical fields.

PTC 620 - Proposal Writing (Summer 2008)
Provides an understanding of and practice in proposal writing for corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Students build skills to create a range of persuasive documents including proposals for research grants, responses to requests for proposal, and government proposals.

PTC 631 - Communication and Environmental Problem Solving (Fall 2008)
Develops critical thinking on ecological issues for problem solving by integrating technical information, human values, and communication with environmental change. Students combine theory, research and models, case studies, visual thinking, and scientific inquiry for application in individual decision-making course project.

PTC 606 - Advanced Online Design (Spring 2009)
Develops online visual communication strategies and community building. The course will cover the design and creation of multimedia objects, usability heuristics, navigation theory, contemporary design practices and online community building. Students will be required to create media-rich multidimensional online projects that encourage and facilitate interaction and team-building in the online environment. Design and updating of the MSPTC ePortfolio will be required for this seminar.

PTC 642 - Corporate Communications (Spring 2009)
Develops communication skills for modern global corporate and business markets. Business documents may include mission/vision statements, business plans, financial statements/plans, marketing plans, and corporate policies and procedures.

PTC 604 - Communication Theory & Research (Fall 2009)
Reviews major theories of communication and provides strategies for theory-based research in the field of Professional and Technical Communication. This course focuses on the following research topics: problem statement and hypotheses formulation derived from theory; research design and data generation; source acquisition; and analytic techniques.