ES 260 Environmental & Sustainability Communica
(Cross Reference: COM 260) This course introduces students to the basics of environmental and sustainability communication studies. By way of an exploration of various scholarly and popular media, this course will identify and analyze familiar expressions and forms of communication (genres, tropes, such as metaphors and synecdoche, and cultural narratives) central to environmental sustainability communication. The focus will be on how different ideas and issues related to environmentalism and sustainability are circulated, used, and contested by different cultural, social, and political communities.