COM 390 - Special Topics - Land and Legacies: Environmental Rhetoric

Fall 2026

Instructor
J Smith

This course is a survey of the field of environmental communication. Exploring the premise that how we communicate informs our perceptions of the “natural” world, the course will examine the social construction of the environment and environmental issues. The guiding principle of the course is that humans have relationships with the natural environment, and we will examine how (and why) people talk about these relationships in a variety of contexts, including: wilderness, the history of the environmental movement, Indigenous conceptions, colonialism, climate change, energy development, environmental justice, non-human entanglements, and public lands.”

Special topics course titles and descriptions may change.  May be repeated for credit.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies major and interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies Environmental Studies major requirement.

Spring 2027
 

Instructor
Baugh

Coming soon.