MDS-30025 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Are you passionate about telling new and more powerful stories about climate change, biodiversity loss and human-nature disconnection, the key environmental concerns of our time?
Would you like to develop your creative storytelling skills in the context of environmental communication?
Would you like to use interdisciplinary approaches to craft environmental stories?
This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to work collaboratively using interdisciplinary methods to understand and communicate key environmental concerns including climate change, biodiversity loss, and human-nature disconnection. You will be introduced to different models and disciplinary approaches to environmental communication and learn how to mobilise the power of creative storytelling in maximising the efficacy of environmental communication. You will be trained in the development of context specific, situated, and dialogic forms of environmental communication. You will have the opportunity of developing your own portfolio of creative environmental stories and engage strategic audiences and the wider public with your work. This module will provide you with vital skills and competencies relevant to professional roles in a wide variety of communications, environment and sustainability related fields.

The module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams to understand and communicate key environmental concerns including climate change, biodiversity loss, and human-nature disconnection. Students will be introduced to different models and approaches to environmental communication. Students will learn how to mobilise the power of creative storytelling in maximising the efficacy of environmental communication. They will be trained in the development of context specific, situated, and dialogic forms of environmental communication.

Intended Learning Outcomes

collaborate efficiently using interdisciplinary approaches and where possible, in interdisciplinary teams, to research, plan and produce effective and engaging forms of environmental communication: 1
creatively use different modes of storytelling to maximise the efficacy of environmental communication: 1
analyse the requirements of different communicative contexts and audiences to develop situated forms of environmental communication that are inclusive and empathetic: 1,2
reflect on the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches towards environmental communication: 1,2
use theories of environmental communication in the analysis and planning of effective environmental communication: 1,2

Study hours

Lectures/seminars 10hrs
Creative practice workshops 14hrs
Portfolio preparation 70 hrs
Reflective analysis preparation 28hrs
Preparation for lectures/seminars, wider reading/training 28 hrs

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment