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2014/15 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

COMM3970 Environmental Communication

20 creditsClass Size: 48

Module manager: Kevin G Barnhurst
Email: k.barnhurst@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2014/15

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module is designed to make students better consumers, critics, investigators, and producers of environmental communication. The module raises student awareness of environmental issues, concerns, and concepts and how they are conveyed in our modern society. The following questions guide learning in the module: What is environmental communication? How do people communicate and think about the environment? What makes an environmental message comprehensible, meaningful and effective? How can environmental messages be crafted to change people’s attitudes and behavior? Why is environmental communication important?

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to ...
This module is designed to make students better consumers, critics, investigators, and producers of environmental communication. The module raises student awareness of environmental issues, concerns, and concepts and how they are conveyed in our modern society.

Learning outcomes
- demonstrate heightened awareness of about the nature-society relationship in the developed world
- analyze and critique environmental communication
- demonstrate understanding of how to create effective environmental communication for a range of settings

Syllabus

This module will address themes and theory relevant to environmental communication including conceptual and historical contexts, citizen voices and public forums, media and environment, environmental movements and campaigns, and science and risk communication.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	11	1.00	11.00
Tutorial	1	0.50	0.50
Private study hours			177.50
Total Contact hours			22.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students are required to complete reading each week (4 hours per week for reading and preparation of responses (48 hours total). For each of the 12 seminars, students prepare for contribution to relevant tasks and activities (24 hours over the semester). Students will need to research and write a weekly blog post (24 hours over the semester) and prepare one group assignment during the semester (12.5 hours). The remaining private study time should be dedicated to researching, preparing and writing the part one essay and the research essay (67 hours)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored through contribution to seminars, weekly blog posts, and formative assessment of the Part one Essay 1.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1 x 3,500 - 4,000 words	70.00
Essay	1 x 1,500 - 2,000 words	30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 05/03/2015

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