an oral communications course for eecs majors at mit
This paper is about an oral communications course called "6.UAT" which is required of all students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We describe details about the course, discuss some high-level design decisions, and offer some results from student surveys about their communication ability before and after taking the course. Some of the curriculum ideas are not specific to EECS and thus are adoptable by the general technical community, and can serve as a possible starting point for practitioners at other institutions going through similar communications course design efforts.
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