Course Catalog - 2024-2025

     

ENST 207 - ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Department: Environmental Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: How can storytelling help us respond to the climate crisis? What’s the point of climate comedy? How much do narratives actually change peoples’ minds, and why are some more effective than others? This course examines these and related questions by considering examples of fictional storytelling for social change from a range of mediums and situating them within research on narrative persuasion from history, cultural criticism, communication studies, psychology, and sociology. For their final project, students will have the opportunity to apply these lessons by creating their own environmental media.