WRCM 260 - Eco-Justice and Environmental Advocacy

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
This class explores current environmental issues at the global and local levels. It focuses on understanding, analyzing, and engaging environmental advocacy efforts by studying the theoretical and ethical frameworks and the symbolic relationship between human and nonhuman world. By exploring environmental justice campaigns and developing their own communication campaigns, students will directly engage in communication practices. This course offers students the opportunity to gain an integrated understanding of their different roles as professionals, advocates, and consumers and to improve their ability to find and use expert sources of information; assess competing media claims and narratives; write persuasive essays, analyses, and commentaries; and author evidence-based research papers.