WFU VIRTUAL STUDY ABROAD FAIR
COM 370 Environmental Communication: A Caribbean Context
Students participating in this program will be enrolled in COM 370 (3hrs): Environmental Communication: A Caribbean Context. Students will be provided the opportunity to learn through firsthand experiences how environmental communication functions in the field. By visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines and interacting with stakeholders, communication practitioners, and policy influencers in various environmental sectors, students should have a more concrete understanding of how theory connects (or does not connect) with practice in this small island developing state (SIDS) context. Moreover, during the second week of the program, students will participate in an environmental education program, the annual Fisheries Youth Summer Program, which was started by one of the Wake program faculty in 2010.There will be four course modules that each focus on environmental communication in a specific sector: fisheries, forestry, agriculture, and national parks, and one module that addresses how these sectors integrate environmental communication with each other and with other sectors such as tourism, public health, and disaster management at the local, regional, and international level. By the end of this course, you should be able to:
Students participating in this program will be enrolled in COM 370 (3hrs): Environmental Communication: A Caribbean Context. Students will be provided the opportunity to learn through firsthand experiences how environmental communication functions in the field. By visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines and interacting with stakeholders, communication practitioners, and policy influencers in various environmental sectors, students should have a more concrete understanding of how theory connects (or does not connect) with practice in this small island developing state (SIDS) context. Moreover, during the second week of the program, students will participate in an environmental education program, the annual Fisheries Youth Summer Program, which was started by one of the Wake program faculty in 2010.There will be four course modules that each focus on environmental communication in a specific sector: fisheries, forestry, agriculture, and national parks, and one module that addresses how these sectors integrate environmental communication with each other and with other sectors such as tourism, public health, and disaster management at the local, regional, and international level. By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss environmental communication challenges in SVG’s socio-economic context in broad and nuanced ways
- Articulate perspectives about environmental management and sustainable development among stakeholders in local economic sectors
- Describe environmental communication practices at community, national, & regional levels in governmental and NGO settings
- Draw connections between environmental communication practice in SVG and theory/research
- Explain how environmental communication theory can be applied to practice (e.g., public education efforts) in SVG