Technical Communication (Optional Co-op)

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Courses - September 2025

Level 1

Course details

Career Management
CDEV8132


Style and Genre in Technical Communication
COMM8300


Document Design and Illustration
COMM8310


User Experience
COMM8320


Authoring Tools in Technical Communication
COMM8335


Editing and Publications in Technical Communication
COMM8340


Conestoga 101
CON0101


Research and Information Design
RSCH8070


Level 2

Course details

Co-op and Career Preparation
CEPR8200


Legal, Ethical, and Cultural Considerations in Technical Communication
COMM8350


Technical Training and Tutorials
COMM8360


Document Management and Production
COMM8370


Major Project - Technical Communication
MGMT8700


Web Design and Applications
PROG8530


Level 3

Course details

Co-op Work Term (Technical Communications)
COOP8190


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Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs are based on the most recent available data through the Conestoga Campus Store.

Program outcomes

  1. Compose messages that are clear, concise, and error free to address the needs of a specified audience and purpose.
  2. Produce print and electronic media that apply industry-led principles of style, design, layout, and format to address client goals and user needs.
  3. Employ requisite levels of the editing process to craft content across a variety of media formats for purpose, concision, clarity, and usability.
  4. Produce text that applies appropriate and stylistic conventions of genre, logic, and rhetoric for a variety of audience types and communication needs.
  5. Integrate credible sources with appropriate industry and/or academic citation styles, to create documents that demonstrate professional rigour.
  6. Address user needs by providing a range of complementary documents in a project cycle.
  7. Apply key functions of leadership and team-orientation to ethically manage the life-cycle of writing projects appropriate to a given medium.
  8. Employ entrepreneurial strategies to identify and respond to new opportunities across the technical communication field.
  9. Combine end-user needs with sound environmental and cost-efficient principles to promote active stewardship in documentation and publication design.