Dear CPTSC colleagues,
Please share our MA and PhD programs with your students. I am happy to answer any questions or direct them to our director of graduate studies. More details below.
Join Texas Tech University’s Distinguished Technical Communication Programs!
We offer the MA in Technical Communication and PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric. All of our graduate programs are delivered via online and onsite modalities. Application deadline is January 11, 2024 for both the MA and PhD. We do not require the GRE for grad applications.
👉 Apply Now: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/admissions/howtoapply.php
Our programs’ distinctive features include:
1. Competitive Funding for Onsite MA & PhD Students
We remain well-poised in an era of uncertain financial times for higher education. We guarantee five years of annual stipends ($20,000) for all of our onsitePhD students and two years of stipends ($15,500) for our onsite MA students. Lubbock, TX also offers a low cost of living for a city with a population of 300,000+. And oh, did we mention the 300+ days of sunshine in the south plains?
2. Diverse Faculty Strengths
We have 15 assistant, associate, and full professors with an array of theoretical, practical, and methodological approaches to technical communication and rhetoric. Our particular area strengths are:
+ Technical Communication and User Experience Design
+ Rhetorics of Science, Health, and Medicine
+ Composition, Literacy, and Pedagogy
+ Ethics, Feminism, and Public Rhetoric
3. Graduate Student Placement in Academia and Industry
We realize that the traditional purpose of a graduate degree has been changing from the exclusive pursuit of a tenure-track academic position.Our current MA and PhD students come to us from companies like Google and Microsoft to grow their practitioner careers as technical communicators while others prepare for traditional academic posts.
Similarly, we prepare our MA students for industry or for application to PhD programs in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication.
4. Flexibility for a Synchronous Online Graduate Education Experience
Our online and onsite MA and PhD programs offer great practical flexibility for current or future working professionals. All of our courses are offered online in a synchronous format that brings together all of our students in a virtual community of learning.
We look forward to receiving applications from your students! We have attached a flyer that you can share with your students.
Thank you!
Jason Tham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Technical Communication & Rhetoric
Assistant Chair, Department of English
Office: Humanities Building 363-D, Texas Tech University
Mentor, McNair Scholars Program
Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship, Outreach & Engagement
VP, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication