Duration
8h Th, 4h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS) | 1 crédit |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Communication: conceptual elements
- Importance of taking into account social representations in environmental communication
- Communication issues from a sustainable development perspective
- Ethics and environmental communication relating to sustainable development
- Communication and behavior change
- Communication strategies and methodological proposals
- Specific contexts of environmental communication: risk communication, crisis communication, acceptability communication
- Communication tools
- Evaluation of environmental communication
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- master the basic concepts of communication and their impact on environmental communication processes
- identify communication issues in different contexts
- demonstrate an understanding of the ethical values at the heart of environmental communication relating to sustainable development
- apply appropriate communication methods and tools to different situations and audiences
- plan an environmental communication approach
- evaluate strategies, programs and communication media relating to sustainable development
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
no prerequisite
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- ex cathedra course with power point support
- 3 group works (compulsory): groups of 4 students (preferably to be modified for each work); the work will be initiated during the courses and supervised via email exchanges; one of the works will focus on the design of a communication approach in a specific context (communication plan). The work will be the subject of oral presentations
- Class attendance is therefore essential.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
face to face
Possible adaptation according to sanitary context
Recommended or required readings
- compulsory: pptx materials of the course made available
- optional: portfolio of additional documents made available and accessible online;
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
The assessment will relate to the 3 works carried out during the semester (these works are compulsory and their success exempts from the oral exam) An oral exam will be organized for the students who have not obtained a satisfactory average for all the 3 works .
Work placement(s)
no
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Joost Wellens (Joost.Wellens@uliege.be)
Bernard Tychon (Bernard.Tychon@uliege.be)