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Critical Thinking for Communicators

WCWP-40265

Critical Thinking for Communicators
10 weeks | Online

Critical thinking affects all communication but one may not realize it. It must be learned to ensure that one thinks, reads, writes, and edits with integrity and communicates with clear language, especially to reason better. This course explains some of the skills that professional communicators (i.e., business, science, technical, and other professions with writers and copyeditors) use to draw logical conclusions to complex problems or issues. In this class, students examine their thinking processes--how they use reason to solve problems, form opinions, and make decisions--in order to improve them.  They learn to apply critical thinking techniques to enhance their writing and editing processes so that it presents ethical ideas with as little bias and few fallacies as possible. The course is taught through lectures, discussions, and technical writing exercises and projects.


Quarters Offered: Spring, Fall | Online
Prerequisite: None
Note: Fulfills 3 units toward requirements for the Technical Communication Certificate. Non-certificate students may take this class.
 

Course Information

Online
3.00 units
$595.00

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This course applies to these programs

Technical Communication

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Section ID:

188348

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.

Textbooks:

The Power of Critical Thinking 6th
by Lewis Vaughn
ISBN / ASIN: 9780190852719

You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 4/11/2025
  • 1st no meeting date: 5/26/2025

Note:

This is an online course; all class sessions are taught online. There are no face-to-face class sessions. 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. 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.<br><b>

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Instructor: Steven Lemanski

Steven Lemanski

Steve Lemanski teaches  Technical Communication I, Technical Communiation II, UX for Technical Communicators and Critical Thinking for Communicators for UC San Diego Extension's Technical Communication Certificate Program. 

Steve has worked as a professional writer, editor, and content strategist in the realms of marketing communications and technical communications for more than 20 years. He is now owner and managing editor of Human Factor Communications, LLC, where he helps clients re-design and fine-tune their internal and external multi-channel communications to better engage audiences and move them to action. Early in his communications career, Steve worked in media production (radio, television, and newspaper), in Colorado and Arizona. He has written, edited, and published high-tech marketing, product development, and corporate communications—both print and digital—for original equipment manufacturers, IT service providers, government agencies, and a large healthcare organization.

Steve believes everything he has done as a professional communicator in industry and the media has led him to an even more personally rewarding career as a postsecondary writing and communication instructor. Before teaching technical communication courses for UC San Diego Extended Studies, for four years Steve taught first-year English composition at community colleges in Virginia and Colorado. 

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