Environmental Communication

Catalog description

This course critically analyzes how climate change discourses permeate our daily lives by way of politics, culture, and media. Discourses concerning the environment are multifaceted as public understanding of science is complicated by lived experience, political values, and cultural identities. Throughout this course, students explore the central role that discourse plays in understanding and addressing climate change, and examine the discursive dynamics of a complex network of stakeholders and an often uninterested or uninformed citizenry. Climate change is a collective (shared) problem that requires collective and deliberative problem-solving. The course invites students into the realm of environmental advocacy as we develop strategies for entering "glocal" conversations about the fate of the Earth and the fate of the places we live, work, and enjoy everyday life. Prerequisite: CST 110 . Offered Alternate Years.