Environmental Journalism, Science Communications, and New Media

Lecture, three hours. Introduction to environmental journalism, science communications, and new media, including weekly guest lectures by prominent successful practitioners in wide variety of media. Focus on technologies, methods, genres, and theories of communicating environmental challenges, exploring solutions, and engaging public in newspapers, television, radio, movies, online, on mobile devices, and through social media. Discussion of possibilities and limitations of different media and importance of communications for environmental science, policy, public understanding, and individual decision making. Production by students of environmental communications in variety of media. P/NP or letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
6.7 / 10
Organization
8.3 / 10
Time
5-10 hrs/week
Overall
6.7 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Spring 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    This was a weird effing class. Your whole grade is basically based on a term project you do in a group, on basically the profs topic of expertise, but like there is little guidance and its super open-ended. You have to go to lecture unless you have a friend in the class you know will be there because he passes around a sign-in sheet, though the first couple weeks he will literally read everyones names off roll. Certainly not the worst class I have done but not one I particularly enjoyed either, just kinda meh.

Course

Previously taught
23S

Grading Information

  • Has a group project

  • Attendance required

  • No midterms

  • No final

  • 100% recommend the textbook

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