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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Real experience in a translation bureau, an in-house translation department, or any other business/government entity needing translation services. Theinternship leads to a report, which is evaluated by a panel. Prerequisites: TR 300 and at least one specialized translation class. Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Real experience with clients needing translation services, terminology management or other linguistic consulting services. Students are supervised by their JMU adviser. The freelance activity leads to a report, which is evaluated by a panel. Prerequisites: TR 300 and at least one specialized translation class and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. Introduction to the central components of technical and scientific communication, including technical summaries, definitions, descriptions, instructions, reports, correspondence and proposals. Examines the process of planning, researching, producing and revising technical and scientific communications attuned to specific audiences and directed by clearly defined purposes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Introduction to the central components of technical and scientific communication, including technical summaries, definitions, descriptions, instructions, reports, correspondence and proposals. Emphasizes common problems confronted by technical or scientific communicators who are not native speakers of English, including macro and micro organization, style, paragraphing, grammar, usage, punctuation, and idiomatic language.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. Introduction to research methodologies used in technical and scientific communication, covering techniques for collecting information or data through primary and secondary sources. Includes evaluation of information from print and online sources for accuracy, usefulness and credibility, as well as the skillful integration of source material into reports. Fulfills the College of Arts and Letters writing-intensive requirement for the major. Prerequisite or corequisite: TSC 210.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. Introduction to the central responsibilities of editors when guiding a document through the editorial process, including establishing the need, purpose and scope of a document; developing levels of edit; copyediting; conducting substantive edits; determining document design; editing graphic aids; collaborating with authors; and proofreading. Prerequisite or corequisite: TSC 210.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Study of the ethical and legal issues confronted by technical communicators in a range of fields. Examines the role of ethics in the field, the nexus of ethics and the law, ethical theories and critical thinking in moral reasoning, falsification of information or data, ownership of information, confidentiality, copyright and trademark laws, conflicts of interest, and causes of unethical behavior. Prerequisite: TSC 210, TSC 220 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Study of how writers and editors in technical and scientific communication structure the semantics and syntax of language to achieve rhetorical objectives. Examines methods for applying principles of effective rhetoric to the design and writing of documents in the field. Emphasizes extensive textual analysis of rhetorical models and work-world documents. Prerequisites: TSC 210 or TSC 220 and TSC 230, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Introduction to effects of culture on technical and scientific communication, both in print and online, including a consideration of audience, context, language, page or screen design, graphics and use of color. Examines basic models of culture used in intercultural communication including management considerations, teamwork and translation issues. Prerequisites: TSC 210 or TSC 220 and TSC 230.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Exploration of the ongoing dialogue between science, technology and literature through the reading of literary responses to the effects of such technologies and resulting social phenomena as machine production, urbanization, quantum mechanics, computerization, genetic engineering and the alienation of the worker. Prerequisites: TSC 210 or TSC 220 and TSC 230, or permission of the instructor.
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