Student Resources

Computer Facilities

The English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts (ETCMA) Department maintains a graphics lab in Room J-212. The Lab is available to students taking courses offered by the ETCMA department who need to access the specialized software in the Lab to complete an assignment for an ETCMA class. The computers in J-212 are equipped with scanners, CD burners, and zip drives. Software includes current versions of the following:

Acrobat
PageMaker
InDesign
FrameMaker
Photoshop
Illustrator
RoboHelp
FrontPage
Dreamweaver

Composition Program

ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 make up the First-Year Composition Program at SPSU. The program is designed to equip students with the reading, writing, and thinking skills they'll need in college and in their future careers.

The ATTIC

The ATTIC is a student-centered, service-directed organization which provides the following services to students:

•	Admissions/registration assistance
•	Academic advising for General/Undeclared Major students
•	Academic advising for Joint Enrollment students
•	Testing Services (CPE, MAT, Regents')
•	Disability Services
•	Tutoring (basic math, basic English, physics, biology, chemistry, computer science)
•	International Student processing
•	ESL assistance

TCOM Careers

Find out what types of work technical and professional communicators do.

Usability Center

The University's state-of-the art Usability Center in J160 supports both academic instruction and research for internal and external clients.

Online Resources

•	TCOMmons: Southern Poly's Online Home for Technical Communicators
•	Electronic Gallery Electronic resource for the study of fine art
•	Antique Tool Museum A virtual museum of the Alan and Louise Sellars Collection of tools from the 18th to the 19th century
•	Electronic Tool Chest How-to instructions to help students learn fundamental procedures in using graphic arts and desktop-publishing software
•	E-Portfolio WorkShop Resources to assist students in constructing electronic portfolios
•	The EServer TC Library A comprehensive portal to online resources in professional, scientific, and technical communication
•	Society for Technical Communication (STC) The world's largest professional organization of technical communicators
•	Association for Computing Machinery ACM is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide
•	SIGCHI ACM SIGCHI brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use. ACM SIGCHI provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
•	ChiAtlanta CHI*Atlanta provides a forum for people who share a common interest in how humans interact with computer technology.

The English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Department is a part of Southern Polytechnic State University and can be contacted at TCOM@spsu.edu.
1100 South Marietta Parkway Marietta, GA 30060-2896
Tel: (678) 915-7202 FAX: (678) 915-7425