- Environmental Communication

Catalog description

“The “green” and “organic” language that is marking everything from our magazine racks to our grocery shelves, the increasing number of farmers’ markets throughout urban and rural areas, and the increasing local discussions of the dangers of “fracking” serve as evidence that the current discourses in and around environmental care are not a fad. Rather, environmental awareness and practices comprise a “central issue of our time” that is laden with cultural concerns of ideological and material differences, power, privilege and marginality. This course will begin with an in-depth exploration of the philosophy that communication is the means through which we construct, participate, and convey the cultures we are a part of and therefore, is central to the creation of the kind of world we want to live in. We will then turn our attention to an analysis of current social, organizational and political discourses on the environment and our responsibility, or not, in its protection.”.