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Apr 18, 2024
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COMS 8480 - Environmental Communication
This course focuses on how we communicatively construct and affect the environment. Students analyze and critique a wide range of voices (e.g., citizen and community groups, Greens, corporations and lobbyists, scientists, anti-environmentalists, public officials and regulators, journalists) on a variety of environmental disputes. Students learn about environmental decision making and conflict resolution, advocacy, climate and environmental justice movements, science communication, and risk communication in the context of current environmental issues. The course is designed to accommodate primarily communication studies doctoral students, but it reviews foundational theories in sufficient detail to equip students from other programs to participate effectively. The course equips students to conduct original research on environmental communication and to engage in activism as appropriate to interests and exigencies.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain the ways that communication constructs the natural environment.
- Students will be able to describe and analyze the nature of the public sphere in which the environment is communicatively constructed and the various voices that contribute to this sphere.
- Students will be able to explain the processes by which environmental problems are surfaced, disputed, and resolved or otherwise slip off the agenda of public discussion.
- Students will be able to understand, analyze, and be able to participate in environmental decision-making.
- Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate journalistic and documentary practices related to environmental issues.
- Students will be able to describe, analyze, evaluate, and formulate the outlines of environmental campaigns.
- Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate corporate messaging about the environment, including lobbying.
- Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate scientific messaging about the environment.
- Students will be able to explain how communication theories play out in a variety of environmental contexts.
- Students will be able to analyze and explain the effects of risk perceptions on responses to environmental communication.
- Students will be able to create appropriate environmental messages based on risk communication theory and practice.
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