This course is designed to provide a forum for experiential learning. As such, it demands a high level of person-to-person communication and interaction that centers on the challenges of real-life contextual communication.
The assignments for this quarter are centered on your creation of hard copy and digital communication produced for course goals that you will share with students at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. This means that you'll be collaborating through digital connections with students in Russia to produce work for real uses and users within genuine communication contexts. The quality of the documents you produce for these assignments will, thus, depend on your concentrated efforts to interact effectively with your collaborative partners both at Georgia Tech and at the European University and to develop materials that reflect your effective collaboration. The quality of your work will also depend on your ability to determine the most effective means to communicate accurately, clearly, and effectively in the form of resumes, proposals, analytical reports, and the web project report site.
The course will focus on analysis of cross-cultural, digital communication. Both in subject area study and experientially, you will explore issues in this area, analyze them, and report the results of your research, experience, and analysis.
The overall textual goal of your class project is to provide an effective, clear, well-designed web site that provides the results of your research and experiences. The other class assignments will serve as your introduction of qualifications (resume), plans of action (proposals), and reports of your site needs assessments (analytical report). Note that your participation in all these projects and the class discussions, both on- and off-line, weighs heavily in assessment of your grades.
Much of this class will be virtual in nature, conducted both on the World Wide Web through WebBoard conferencing software and through e-mail, that will allow you to work with your classmates in Russia at the European University. As such, you must plan to devote time to your online discussions, just as you would to sessions in more traditional face-to-face class environments.
Instructors: Dr. TyAnna Herrington and Dr. Yuri Tretyakov
Office: 352 Skiles 894-6207; Herrington available 10:30-12 MW, Tretyakov available at 117 D.M. Smith M 12:30-2. Thurs 11-12:30
tyanna.herrington@lcc.gatech.edu
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/faculty/~herrington/classes/lcc4406/
You can access WebBoard, our class conferencing program, from this site.
Please use the Icarus site as an easy access sourcebook for further information, explanations, and examples in technical communication.
Kairos Electronic Journal -- Special Issue on Intellectual Property
Helpful Technical Communication Web Sites
Other Links
Please send comments and suggestions to TyAnna K. Herrington at tyanna.herrington@lcc.gatech.edu