The 21-Course Undergraduate Program: Strength Through Diversification  

How can diversification strengthen a professional communication program? By capitalizing on faculty backgrounds, a broad variety of courses, and student experience. Here’s how that combination of factors works in the 21-course undergraduate major in professional writing at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Jennings, Ann S. CPTSC Proceedings (2000). Academic>Education>Undergraduate

Here Comes That Song Again: The Theory and Practice Blues  

An issue that continues to affect our strategies for developing undergraduate programs is the old contest between theory and practice, or, as it frequently occurs in technical communication programs, between theory and tools. Should we focus our undergraduate programs on understanding principles of communication in the technical world or should we focus on teaching the tools that are called for in the job ads for technical communicators?

Allen, Nancy J. CPTSC Proceedings (2000). Academic>Education>Undergraduate>Theory