Undergraduate Program
Majors
Technical and Scientific Communications
Miami’s Bachelor of Arts in Technical and Scientific Communication (BATSC) has recently been revised. It is now a major in Professional Writing.
While students are no longer being accepted into the major, those who are just completing it should make sure they have fulfilled all of the requirements below.
Major Requirements
(52 semester hours)
English courses
All of these:
- News Writing and Reporting (3)
- ENG 302 Structure of Modern English (4)
- ENG 313 Introduction to Technical Writing (3) or ENG 215 Technical Writing (3)
- Feature Writing (3)
- ENG 411/511 Visual Rhetoric for Technical and Scientific Communicators (3)
- ENG 412/512 Editing for Technical and Scientific Communicators (3)
- ENG 413/513 Writing Reports and Proposals (3)
- ENG 414/514 Designing and Testing User Documents for Technical and Scientific Communicators (3)
- ENG 415 Capstone in Technical and Scientific Communication: Practicum (3)
Related Hours (required)
- COM 135 Public Expression and Critical Inquiry (3)
One of these options:
Oxford campus:
- CSA 141 Personal Computer Applications (2) and
- Personal Computer Concepts and Applications (3)
Regional campus:
- Personal Computer Concepts and Applications (3)
Professional Area Courses (required)
Eighteen hours of approved courses (see the major handbook) in one of these areas:
- Environmental science (preparation for writing in environmental fields)
- Biological sciences (preparation for writing in medical or health fields)
- Computer science (preparation for writing in the computer industry)