Classes in Scientific Commmunication: What Works? What Doesn't?

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Hello,

I'm trying to get a better understanding of what works and doesn't for science grad students in classes about scientific communication; communicating science to the public; scientific visualization; public speaking; and so on. Pretty much any class that teaches no science but, instead, skills of writing/talking about it. Although I'm saying course, I also care about workshops, online correspondences, whatever.

If you've taken such a course, can you respond on this thread about it? It would be helpful to discuss what you wanted to get out of it vs. what you got out of it; what kinds of assignments were particularly good/bad; and so on.

I'm asking because I recently realized that around my own department, there's tons of distributed knowledge about what the good classes are and what makes them good, but that knowledge is larlgely inaccessible to incoming students and tied to specific classes which change over time anyway. And there's tons of information online about this topic, but not so much about how to seek out effective classes about communicating science.

Thanks!