Certificate in Communicating Sustainability - Communicating Development and Environment: Critical Debates and Alternative Strategies INTD 4405   Communicating Development and Environment: Critical Debates and Alternative Strategies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
How we communicate about social and environmental justice matters a lot, especially in times of increasing political polarization and climate anxiety. The communication strategies of NGOs, governments, media outlets, cultural producers and ordinary people play important roles in shaping the ways other people understand these issues and whether and how they act on them. But many of us struggle to have conversations with people who think differently, and some of us don’t engage at all with people we disagree with. In this course students will develop the skills to critically analyse communications about global social and environmental issues from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives AND will learn to design and put into practice communications strategies for public audiences using a range of media (text, speaking, images, podcasts, video, music and sound). The skills of effective communication and public engagement are in increasing demand in all sectors of the economy and society. Course assignments focus on practical communication skills.
NOTES: Course previously offered as INTD 3021 - Communicating Development and Environment : Critical Debates and Alternatives up 2023/24 and before that as INTD 4001 - Special Topics - Topics in Development up to 2020/21
FORMAT: Seminar
CROSS-LISTING: Graduate studies - IDS
EXCLUSIONS: INTD 3021