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This course teaches students to communicate effectively with a non-specialized audience including the “voting public”, teachers and high school students. Class projects include developing materials for mainstream science news outlet and a hands-on presentation. Class content emphasizes writing clearly for a non-technical audience, creating appropriate visuals and hands-on manipulatives, developing oral presentation skills, giving and receiving feedback, and simulating the real world environment in which most communication occurs. This is a 7-week course and is not open to undergraduates.