The Department of Communication & Journalism is happy 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 nature shape human relations with/in the natural world and how we subsequently view and act toward our environments and within our ecosystems. Students of environmental communication examine such things as messages about the natural world produced through advertising, news media, popular culture, and culture at large, as well as current issues in environmental justice, nature and childhood, and ecocultural relations 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 two elective courses. 

Core classes:

C&J *313 - Ecocultural Communication: Humans & “The Environment” or C&J *339 - Rhetoric and the Environment

Concentration electives:

• C&J 314 - Intercultural Communication
• C&J 317 - International Conflict & Community Building
• C&J 318 - Language, Thought & Behavior
• C&J 327 - Persuasive Communication
• C&J 438 - Communicating Lobo Gardens 
• C&J 450 - Health Communication
• C&J 467 - Mass Communication: International Perspectives