What is International Scientific & Technical Education

• Collaboration software is transforming the way international businesses communicate in the global workforce. Technical communicators use synchronous and asynchronous communication technology to assign team roles and responsibilities, organize document production, plan documentation strategies, and develop tactical solutions to problems of production. To work effectively in these virtual environments, they require current theoretical knowledge in how to successfully negotiate difference in virtual spaces, how power manifests itself in these spaces, and how the tools they use to construct these spaces shape them in interested rather than neutral ways. Teaching technical communication online models the collaborative virtual workspaces that writing professionals currently inhabit. Online collaboration projects provide students with a familiar environment in which to hone their skills and self-reflexively examine their online participation by consulting archives of collaborative work sessions.
  

Who Should Consider this Degree

• Technical workers who have an interest in acquiring a university graduate certificate to mark their advancement, and an international audience interested in exploring the unique offerings of a graduate technical writing curriculum that emphasizes international issues including how to deal with an increasingly global workplace.