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Course description:
This course looks into the ways official and everyday discourse/texts convey information and critical expressions about environmental issues. At the heart of environmental communication lies the fascination with the intricacies of human discourse and an intrinsic belief that improving communication practices might help sway society toward more positive humanitarian and ecological practices (Slovic et al., 2019).
Environmental discourse, dating back to the 1960s, started witnessing growth in the last half century through mass mediated, visual forms of communication, bringing environmental issues to public attention. Consequently, scholars are introducing a range of communicational practices about the environment into their research, looking at the acts of saving or wasting natural resources and how are these entangled with the ways people use language.
With a thorough understanding of many and various ecocritical texts, students will be invited to investigate how language shapes the environment-related practices. In doing so, we will ask the following questions: How are nature and environmental phenomena and processes discursively accomplished, represented and mediatized? How is
“sustainability” defined and what communication practices contribute to the transformation of “sustainability discourse”? How do people talk about their environmental behaviour? How do people discursively create places/spaces in relation to their environment?
The course aims to encourage students to engage critically with the most recent theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to studying how people communicate their ideas about ecological as well as social, and economic imbalances in their environment. In this sense, students will experience hands-on fieldwork as they collect data while working in pairs or groups.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, it is expected that students:
- will become familiar with theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches in the study of environmental issues (e.g. pollution, environmental destruction, unsustainable food production/consumption)
- will understand how environmental phenomena are discursively framed and represented
- will get a better insight into how communication shapes our perceptions of environmental issues
- will become familiar with the most recent conversations and debates that are already taking place both locally and globally. |
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Die Veranstaltung ist zugleich anrechenbar für Bereich II des Zertifikats ‚Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘ der UDE.
Bitte melden Sie sich hier ausschl. für das fachfremde Modul E3 Studium liberale an. Anmeldefrist ab dem 13.09.2023. Weitere Informationen zum Studium liberale, eine Liste freier Plätze, alle Veranstaltungen in chronologischer Reihenfolge etc. finden Sie oben unter „Weitere Links“. (Als Fachstudent wählen Sie zur Anmeldung das fachintern übliche Verfahren; bei LSF: die gleichnamige Veranstaltung ohne das Präfix 'E3'.) |
