Business, Government, and Technical Communications at Acc

in 2004-2005, the technical communications program at austin community college (acc) was renamed the business & technical communications (btcm) program and restructured to address the professional and career needs of information specialists in government and business. this move was in response to the needs of professionals in government and business who do a lot of writing in their work but who are not trained as writers and whose job titles do not include “writer.” it was also in response to the evolution of the technical communication field where the job title “information specialist” has become as common as “technical communicator” and “technical writer.” in 2016-2017, the program was renamed the business, government, & technical communications (bgtcm) program to better reflect the diverse offerings of our department. the program now consists of three categories: 1. social media communications: designed to enable technical communication students and others to get employment as so