CMS 338 - Rhetoric of Climate Change (3)

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or above. (Cross-referenced with EIS 338 .)

This course introduces students to major concepts and methods of analyzing and creating rhetoric - the study of multimodal texts and symbolic action - in the context of climate change. Students will examine landmark historic and contemporary climate-change words, sounds, and images from scientists, politicians, journalists, activists, and other individuals and groups to investigate how communication affects and reflects the values, beliefs, faiths, and histories that shape our understanding of nature, the environment, and climate change, and how communication mediates the relationship between people and the ecological systems in which they are embedded.