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2024-2025 NOVA Catalog 
    
2024-2025 NOVA Catalog

Technical and Professional Writing, C.S.C

Location(s): AL, AN, LO, MA, WO


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CIP Code: 23.1303

NOVA Code: 221-265-01

Purpose: This 16-credit Technical and Professional Writing Career Studies Certificate is a writing credential focused on various workplace writing genres. Students will gain expertise in writing and editing technical reports, documenting processes, and in writing/responding to proposals. Students will also gain a solid foundation in the vocabulary of technical and proposal writing and professional communication.

The Technical and Professional Writing CSC is credential comprised of five required courses.

Completion Requirements: 16 total credits. All students must complete ENG 111 (or its equivalent) in the first semester of certificate study. Students must next complete a core of 13 credits of technical writing, editing and proposal writing courses.

Credit for Prior Learning: Students in this program may be eligible for credit for prior learning and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

One Year


Total credits for the Technical and Professional Writing Career Studies Certificate: 16 credits


1 Students must complete ENG 111  and (or its equivalent) in the first semester of their registration.

 

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