Close Cultural Encounters with Dr. Donal Carbaugh

2-day workshop with field study, methodology workshop & lecture

FIELD STUDY:

Petroglyphs and Ecocultural Communication
Tuesday, April 22, 2014,9 a.m.-Noon
Arrive at Petroglyph National Monument Visitor's Center G 9 a.m.
Directions: Take Western Trail west from Coors Blvd until it ends.

METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP:

Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA)
Tuesday, April 22, 2014,4 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Department of Communication & Journalism, Room: CJ104, UNM

LECTURE:

"Environmental Communication and Cultural Discourses: Grappling with Places"
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Bobo Room, Hodgin Hall (4th Floor), UNM

Dr. Donal Carbaugh's visit to the Communication & Journalism Department is one of three visits this semester by leading Environmental Communication scholars, including Dr. Stacey Sowards (University of Texas El Paso) and Dr. Gregg Walker (Oregon State University). In conjunction with these esteemed scholars' visits, C&J is announcing its newest concentration of the Communication Major:

Environmental Communication

We are excited to announce our new concentration for Communication majors—Environmental Communication. This timely, rich, and relevant field of study is based on the premise that the ways we communicate about the natural world influence or even determine humanity's relationship to the natural world and how we subsequently view and treat it. Students of environmental communication examine such things as the messages about the natural world sent to us through advertising, news reporting, pop culture, and culture at large, as well as current issues in environmental justice, nature and childhood, and different cultural relations with nature in the U.S. and abroad. The concentration engages students in understanding and questioning environmental ideologies, the place of power in shaping ecological relations, and ways of communicating transformation. Students gain tools to consider how they might envision and enact sustainable and restorative ways forward. Below are the course requirements and options for this concentration:

Students must take either starred (*) course and any two elective courses in the concentration sequence. The other starred course may be taken as one of the additional two elective courses.

 Core classes:   

C&J *313 - Ecocultural Communication
or C&J *339 - Rhetoric and the Environment

Concentration electives:

1. C&J 314 - Intercultural Communication
2. C&J 317 - International Conflict & Community Building
3. C&J 318 - Language, Thought & Behavior
4. C&J 327 - Persuasive Communication
5. C&J 450 - Health Communication
6. C&J 467 - Mass Communication: International Perspectives

Note: C&J's Lobo Gardens research-service-learning course, which focuses a communication lens on global and local food issues and engages students in growing food on and off campus, will soon be added to the concentration electives list.