This course discusses the fundamental principles and practical applications of technical communication and scientific reporting. It is designed to equip students with the essential skills required to effectively convey complex technical information in various professional and academic contexts. Students will delve into systematic methods for analyzing their target audience and defining the precise purpose of their communication, ensuring that their messages are always tailored for maximum impact and clarity. This course will be delivered primarily through a dynamic, student-centered approach, emphasizing group-based discussions and comprehensive reporting. Students will be strategically divided into collaborative learning groups, and each group will be assigned specific topics to research, prepare, and present to the entire class.
- Teacher: Adalyn Soriano
This course discusses the fundamental principles and practical applications of technical communication and scientific reporting. It is designed to equip students with the essential skills required to effectively convey complex technical information in various professional and academic contexts. Students will delve into systematic methods for analyzing their target audience and defining the precise purpose of their communication, ensuring that their messages are always tailored for maximum impact and clarity. This course will be delivered primarily through a dynamic, student-centered approach, emphasizing group-based discussions and comprehensive reporting. Students will be strategically divided into collaborative learning groups, and each group will be assigned specific topics to research, prepare, and present to the entire class.
- Teacher: Adalyn Soriano
This course discusses the fundamental principles and practical applications of technical communication and scientific reporting. It is designed to equip students with the essential skills required to effectively convey complex technical information in various professional and academic contexts. Students will delve into systematic methods for analyzing their target audience and defining the precise purpose of their communication, ensuring that their messages are always tailored for maximum impact and clarity. This course will be delivered primarily through a dynamic, student-centered approach, emphasizing group-based discussions and comprehensive reporting. Students will be strategically divided into collaborative learning groups, and each group will be assigned specific topics to research, prepare, and present to the entire class.
- Teacher: Alex Soriano
Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops students' communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual, and/or web-based output for various purposes
This course provides a
comprehensive exploration of technical and creative writing, equipping students
with the skills and knowledge to communicate effectively in diverse contexts.
Students will learn to write clear, concise, and engaging technical documents,
such as reports, proposals, and scientific papers, while also developing their
creative writing abilities in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The
course emphasizes the importance of grammar and style in both genres, and
provides students with opportunities to practice and refine their writing
through a variety of assignments and activities. Specifically designed for BS
Biology students, this course will culminate in practical application through
the development of thesis-related writing materials.