Culture, Politics and Climate Change
ENVS 4800
Schedule, Readings, Assignments
(I may add/remove readings as discussions unfold)
COMPONENT I: OVERVIEW – institutions, actors, (collective) psychology
COMPONENT II: MASS MEDIA – who speaks for the climate?
- Week 4: September 13 & 15
- Week 5: September 20 & 22 (activity #1 ‘The Climate Reality Project’ write-up due)
- Week 6: September 27 & 29 (team project presentation proposal due)
COMPONENT III: THE PUBLIC – understanding, engagement, mediating images
- Week 7: October 4 & 6
- Week 8: October 11 & 13
- Week 9: October 18 & 20 (individual paper topic proposals due)
- Week 10: October 25 & 27
- Week 11: November 1
COMPONENT IV: BUSINESSES, NGOs & CELEBRITIES – neo-millennial charismatic megafauna
- Week 11: November 3 (activity #2 ‘The Twitter Project’ write-up due)
- Week 12: November 8 & 10
- Week 13: November 15 & 17
- Week 14: November 22 & 24 (NO CLASS - FALL BREAK)
- Week 15: November 29 & December 1
- Week 16: December 6 & 8 (team presentations)
FINAL EXAM
- Wednesday, December 14, 4:30PM - 7:00 PM (final individual paper due)
