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Dual Degree: Master of Arts in Information and Learning Technologies and Master of Science in Technical Communication
The market place increasingly demands graduates who posses both instructional design and technical communication expertise. The Department of Communication of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Information and Learning Technologies Program in the School of Education jointly sponsor a dual masters degree program. This program enables students to simultaneously earn Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) and Technical Communication (MSTC) Masters degrees.
If you pursue this dual degree you do not need to complete both master programs in their entirety. Instead, course credits from one degree program are applied toward the credits needed for the other one. Thus, you complete 54 credits for the dual degree, instead of 72 for each separately, a 25% reduction.
Click here for the core ILT classes of the dual Masters program:
- IT 5110 Instructional Design and Production (3 credits)
- IT 5120 Instructional Models, Strategies and Tactics (3 credits)
- IT 5130 Instructional Message Design (3 credits)
- IT 5160 Managing ILT Programs (or approved alternative course) (3 credits)
- IT 5600 Multimedia Authoring: Web (3 credits)
- IT 5610 Principles for Designing Multimedia (3 credits)
- IT 6130 Assessment and Technology (3 credits)
- IT 6720 Research in ILT (3 credits)
- IT 6750 Current Trends and Issues in IT (3 credits)
To pursue this dual Masters degree you must be accepted to both programs. A brochure is available for download (4 megs in size): Dual Degree Brochure. For more information, contact Brent Wilson. To learn more about the details of the Technical Communications requirements, visit the Department of Communications Web site (opens in new browser window).