ENV1202

ENV1202 - Communications for Environmental Studies

This module is designed for undergraduate students pursuing the Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree with the aim of helping them to develop critical thinking, reading, writing and speaking skills relevant for communication with academia and with the public. The curriculum deals with three main interrelated areas:

  • Communication with the public - raising public awareness of environmental issues through science-based advocacy
  • Communication with academia - developing skills in academic writing
  • Argumentation within environmental studies - examining environmental issues using the Precautionary Principle.

Objectives

By the end of the module students should have developed skills in:

  • appropriate use of oral and written communication for the academic and the lay audience;
  • logical and cohesive organisation of academic texts;
  • use of language features that characterize the objective academic style;
  • expression of stance and modality in arguments and the  coherent development of sound arguments; and
  • use of features that characterize effective oral and visual communication.

Assessment

  • Continuous Assessment 70%
  • Final Examination 30%

Prerequisites

If students are required to take ES1000, Basic English, and/or ES1102, English for Academic Purposes, they must complete those modules before taking this course.

Preclusions

SP1202

Modular Credits

Four

Workload

0-4-0-3-3

Student Publications

2012

Student Name Article Title Tutor
Jharyathri Thiagarajah Is the Red-Dead Conduit (RDC) the Solution to Reviving the Dead Sea? Susan Tan
Priscilla Tong The Problem with your Clothes: Examining the Sustainability of Cotton Production Practices Susan Tan