TCID 375 Environmental Communication

General

• Analyze--with depth--underlying values including the legacy of racism and white privilege that propel disagreements about how the environment is defined and used.
• Understand the complexities of environmental issues with particular emphasis on how intersectionalities of socially-constructed identities contribute to the creation of disproportionate effects on overburdened communities, particularly communities of color.
• Demonstrate advanced understanding of the role of scientific and technical writing to promote environmental justice.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills at an advanced level by evaluating how power relationships involving colonialism, race, class, and gender are embedded in environmental issues.
• Identify how groups, communities and institutions have developed rhetorically strategic responses to environmental concerns.
• Demonstrate Advanced skills in writing about environmental issues geared towards a specific audience, purpose, and situation as an individual, communal or institutional means of responding to environmental injustice and its impacts on indigenous peoples and people of color.
• Establish guidelines for effective environmental communication.