Environmental Communication

Catalog description

This course deals with issues that impact the environment and the web of life that surrounds us. Although the central focus is on the communicative topics relating to the environment, the approach of this class is necessarily pluralistic and multidisciplinary. Students will call on theories from fields as diverse as philosophy, rhetoric, education, business and evolutionary biology to investigate, examine and engage issues of environmentalism. The approaches will be brought to bear on various environmental texts. This course also has a commitment to and is embedded in environmental justice.