How does ETSU help students build oral communication, writing, and information technology skills?
To succeed on the job and in their personal lives, students need to speak and listen effectively, write skillfully, and use information technology. Students begin to develop these skills in the freshman year by taking required courses in speech communication, English and computer science. To help students keep building these skills throughout the college years, ETSU requires all students to take “proficiency-intensive” courses. Proficiency-intensive courses aren’t additional hours added to the student’s program of study. Rather, some of the courses students take in their majors or as electives have also been declared oral communication-intensive (OCI), using information technology-intensive (UITI), or writing-intensive (WI) because the courses place special emphasis on helping students practice these skills. Proficiency-intensive courses teach the subject matter of a field while also giving students the chance to practice important skills. This is called an “across-the-curriculum” appr
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