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MSTC Program Outcomes

The following are the four areas of the MSTC program in which graduates are expected to show competency. Not every artifact from our progression through the program can be expected to cover all four areas, but overall our artifacts provide that competency by the time we complete our program.

Rhetorical Knowledge

  • Recognize and understand the ways in which genres shape communication

  • Understand the importance of user-centered design

  • Analyze, articulate, and respond to the needs of specific audiences and communication situations

  • Apply conventions of genre and form appropriate to specific audiences and contexts

Practices & Processes

  • Develop flexible strategies for drafting, revising, and editing

  • Demonstrate ability to communicate verbally and visually in multiple genres

  • Understand the collaborative and social aspects of research, writing, and design processes

  • Demonstrate awareness of community and cultural patterns in communication

  • Demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical uses of information and technology

Critical Thinking, Analysis & Research

  • Understand a variety of theoretical approaches to technical communication

  • Understand relationships among language, knowledge, and power

  • Recognize, analyze, and understand the contexts within which language, information, and knowledge are produced, managed, organized, and disseminated

  • Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others

  • Understand ideological perspectives regarding research methods and research design

  • Read, interpret, and evaluate research studies

  • Identify and apply appropriate methods for investigating particular research questions

Technology

  • Demonstrate a critical perspective of technology, its uses, users, and contexts

  • Understand the role of technologies/media in accessing, managing, developing, and communicating information

  • Choose appropriate technologies for presenting, organizing, and communicating information for a range of audiences, purposes, and genres

  • Demonstrate ability to use a range of technologies for writing, editing, and designing

  • Develop flexibility in adapting to new technologies

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