Graduate Certificate in Professional Communications offered at Stevens
The rapidly developing global community demands an increasingly refined set of communications skills from its professionals. Clarity of expression has become more important than ever to managers, scientists, and engineers as the tools of communication have become ever more sophisticated and the number of models multiplied.
Communication is an enabling technology and is a critical core competence of all fields.
The Graduate Certificate in Professional Communications at Stevens Institute of Technology helps participants from all fields enhance and develop their skills, the better to serve their industries. Communication of all kinds - written, oral and web-based - is the sine qua non of today's professional's skill set.
Program Requirements
To earn the graduate certificate, students will take four courses.
- Hum 501: Foundations of Technical Communication
- Hum 502: Professional Presentations
- Hum 503: Advanced Documentation Techniques - or - Hum 504: Business Plan Writing
- A capstone course on the skills needed in specific industries
Capstone courses include:
- Hum 530: Writing for Engineers
- Hum 535: Writing for International Markets
- Hum 540: Foundations in Financial Writing
- Hum 545: Medical Writing
- Hum 550: Writing for the Web
- Hum 555: Writing for Project Management
- Hum 560: Writing for and about the Science Community
- Hum 565: Publicity Writing
- Hum 570: Proposal Writing
Successful completion of all four courses will lead to the graduate certificate. The advantage to our students and their employers to having the 4-course certificate program instead of a stand-alone course is the depth and breadth of expertise graduates will acquire. In today's market, one person must be able to fill the niches once occupied by several employees. Pedagogically, having students take a series of courses will ensure homogeneous class skills. Foundations of Technical Communications is a pre-requisite for the capstone courses. The next two courses have no pre-requisite although the Foundations of Technical Communication course would be useful. Corporate clients might elect to have their employees take a single course, in which case, pre-requisites might be waived.
Courses are offered on the Stevens campus in Hoboken on weekdays and weekday evenings. Classes may also be offered at corporate locations: please contact Professor Deborah Sinnreich-Levi at dsinnrei@stevens.edu. if you are interested in having a class taught at your company.
Faculty who teach in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Communications Program bring an array of expertise to their classes. They hold advanced degrees in a broad spectrum of fields, have published numerous books and articles, and have both taught academia and worked in industry.
The Program Director, Prof. Sinnreich-Levi, is the Director of Writing Programs as well as of the Samuel, Minerva and David Lee Humanities Resource Center at Stevens Institute of Technology. She has taught all levels of writing and been a writing program administrator for over 20 years.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.
