Environmental Communications and Reporting
ENVM 643 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVM 615. An intensive examination of environmental communications and reporting, focusing on building the communication skills needed by environmental managers. The goal is to communicate ethically, effectively, and with cultural competence with diverse environmental stakeholders. Discussion covers how history, ethics, justice, diverse perspectives, and reflexivity relate to environmental communication; environmental reporting; and science, public health, risk, and climate communications. Emphasis is on developing key professional skills, including scientific literacy and numeracy, power and reflexivity, public speaking, data design and visualization, meeting hosting and facilitation, and writing and editing technical products.