Technical communicators work primarily through digital media, including web sites, video, and social media. And most of the jobs in technical communication are in high-tech areas such as software development, manufacturing, government, and health care. As a technical communicator, you will work in a team of experts to help solve complex problems for people from next door to across the globe. Technical communication majors learn how to find out what people want and need and create communications that help them get where they want to go. Doing so requires good people skills and a creative, flexible mind-set.

As a BATC major, you will learn skills that transfer to nearly any job or industry where you might find opportunity knocking. Those skills include

• Helping people solve problems by explaining things to them clearly and effectively
• Communicating with people from all walks of life and from across the world
• Working in teams
• Using technology to build understanding