Project Management for Technical Communicators

Project Management for Technical Communicators
6 weeks | Online

How can you keep your technical communication project on track when the goal is always changing? Let an experienced project manager teach you how to tame your wild project. Learn to do document needs analysis, productivity metrics, project estimation (cost and timeline), and progress tracking and reporting. Get hands-on practice on a course project (a cost and timeline estimate) you will create from a set of starting requirements. For your convenience, homework assignments will build toward the course project, and you can do the coursework online at any time of day.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Summer | Online
Prerequisite: None
Software: MS Word and Adobe Acrobat (Reader or Professional)
Note: Fulfills 2 units toward electives for the Technical Communication Certificate. Non-certificate students may take this class.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email ahl@ucsd.edu.

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Course Number: BUSA-40667
Credit: 2.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Technical Communication

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7/15/2024 - 8/24/2024

$370

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• SECTION ID:

  182870

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Herman, Elizabeth, PhD, Business MA, English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication) BA with Honors, Journalism and Mass Communication

  Elizabeth Herman teaches  Project Management for Technical Communicators , Information Design for Communicators , Writing Online Documentation , and Tools for Technical Communicators for UC San Diego Extension's Technical Communication Certificate Program . A long-time technical communicator, Liz currently works for a large non-profit research firm primarily focused on its healthcare work. Her project management work spans business development, operations, training, content management, communications, and outreach. Liz earned a PhD in Business from Walden University, an MA in English from Iowa State University, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Iowa. Liz is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), where she has served in various ...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Project Management for Humans 1st
  by Brett Harned
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781933820514

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

• NOTE:

  This is an online course. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You will have access to this class on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears in the LOCATION section.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  7/15/2024 - 8/24/2024
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.