Policy Communication for a Sustainable World

Catalog description

The course will cover the basics principles of communicating policy, with an emphasis on the distinctive challenges and politicization of climate change policy at the sub-national, national, and international levels. This course meets the NYSED requirements for what constitutes a given number of credit hours through a minimum of 45 hours of instruction and 90 hours of supplementary assignments, where students will practice written, oral, and visual communication techniques, while developing a deep understanding of the complexity for building public support for climate change policies.