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Technical Communication Courses

When you earn your bachelor's degree in Business Administration (BA) with a specialization in Technical Communication, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing technical writing courses:

• Marketing and Corporate Communications - Addressing current communication issues in business, such as globalization, cross-cultural influences, technological advances, ethics, and regulatory requirements, this technical writing course guides students as they apply rhetorical strategies and composition principles to create marketing literature, investor communications, media releases, and executive presentations.
• Visual Design - Through visual design theory, minimalism, visual rhetoric, and visual ethics, this course presents elements of visual design in technical communication using appropriate software. Students learn various software products and then apply their skills to designing and presenting visual design projects and documents.
• Web Design - In this course, which focuses on user-centered design, appropriate use of design elements, and applying information design theories, students learn to use a variety of software products and apply their skills to designing and presenting a web page.
• Proposal and Grant Writing - In this technical writing course, students explore procurement processes in industry and government, as well as grant-funding in the nonprofit and government sectors, with particular emphasis on the technical writer's role in these processes. In addition to issues of ethics and fairness, topics include types of contracts used; how companies and other organizations prepare bids and proposals; and how proposals and grant requests are reviewed.
• Scientific and Medical Writing - Addressing communication and information design in healthcare, science, public policy, patient education, scientific journalism, and related fields, this technical writing course prepares students to create a range of documents presenting their analysis of data and other information on medical and scientific issues for actual or simulated clients.

Technical Communication Course Requirements

To earn a Bachelor of Business Administration at DeVry with a specialization in Technical Communication, you'll be required to complete 8 full-time semesters or 124 credit hours:

• 94 credit hours (about 30 courses) in your core curriculum
• 30 credit hours (about 8 courses) specific to the technical communication specialization

Although a few courses are worth 1 or 2 credit hours, most are equal to 3 or 4 credit hours. Here's the course load you will carry, depending on whether you attend DeVry as a full- or part-time student:

• Full-time student schedule = 15 credit hours (4 to 5 courses) per semester
• Part-time student schedule = 1 to 14 credit hours (1 to 4 courses) per semester

At DeVry, you choose the pace that best fits your life and your schedule.

To learn more about business administration, technical communication, or technical writing courses, as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.