Technical Communication and Information Design, BA

Please see TCID department or Advising Guide for further requirements.

TCID Program Outcomes

Research (Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing)

Students will show they can:

• Use research methods to gather information
• Evaluate, analyze, navigate and synthesize appropriate primary and secondary sources
• Identify reader/user/viewer expectations
• Interpret findings and articulate results
• Produce appropriate and ethical text and graphics for displaying research data and findings

Practices and Processes

Students will show they can:

• Conduct user/reader/viewer analysis
• Focus on a defined purpose
• Meet the needs of the readers/users/viewers
• Respond appropriately and ethically to different rhetorical situations
• Understand writing as a collaborative and iterative process of research, discussion, negotiation, writing, and editing
• Manage projects in stages
• Evaluate and use appropriate strategies for production, revision, editing, proofreading, and presenting

Knowledge of Conventions and Genres

Students will show they can:

• Write in multiple genres
• Evaluate ethically how each genre shapes content and usability
• Control such features as tone, syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
• Identify the main features and uses of writing in a specific field
• Document resources as defined by a specific field

Collaborative Learning

Students will show they can:

• Participate collaboratively with others in the iterative process of research, discussion, negotiation, writing, and editing
• Participate and communicate effectively in a community