An option is a “mini-minor” – a set of courses in one discipline that can be completed in conjunction with any undergraduate degree program, allowing you to focus on an additional subject of interest.
Leveraging Trent’s academic and research strengths in arts-based and environmental education, the Option in Climate Communication blends courses across disciplines to teach you a new storytelling approach that examines how to better understand media's effect on audiences’ morals, values, and behaviours. Equipped with this knowledge, this new offering at Trent University aims to use more effective climate change communications and environmental storytelling to foster a more sustainable and equitable world where our collective well-being is at the heart.
For more information on this exciting new educational experience, please contact National Geographic Explorer Neil Ever Osborne at neilosborne@trentu.ca.
Courses
To earn this option, you need to fulfill the requirements of a General or Honours degree in addition to successfully completing 4.0 credits from the following course list:
- 0.5 COMM credit consisting of:
- COMM 1000H: Introduction to Communications
- 1.5 ERST credits consisting of:
- ERST-POST 2100H: Environmental Science and Politics
- ERST 3501H: Environment and Communication: Oral and Visual Presentation
- ERST 3502H: Climate and Environmental Communications
- 0.5 ERSC credit from:
- ERSC 1010H: Environmental Science and Sustainability (Sc)
- CLIM-ERSC 1050H: Introduction to Climatic Change Science and Policy (Sc)
- 1.5 COMM credits from:
- COMM 2001H: Communications Theory
- COMM 2002H: Foundations of Public Relations
- COMM 2004H: Digital Storytelling
- COMM-ADMN 3001H: Event Management
- COMM 3002H: Media Relations
- COMM 4001H: Crisis Communication
