Outcomes
Graduates return to their career with a range of theoretical knowledge and analytical and communications skills and competencies. Graduates have the skills and knowledge to develop and implement innovative programs to provide students, clients and other audiences with science-based information, psychologically-sound strategies, and culturally-appropriate, philosophically-nuanced and educationally-sophisticated approaches to current
environmental issues.
Graduates will be able to:
- Develop and implement programs to provide students, clients and other audiences with up-to-date, reputable scientific and technological information, as well as traditional knowledge, about current environmental issues and opportunities
- Apply the best current knowledge of learning and cognition to the design, development, and implementation of programs about environmental education and communication
- Design, develop and implement environmental communications and education programs using a range of formats and incorporating relevant current technologies and media
- Evaluate the status of public information and prior knowledge concerning environmental values, issues and opportunities
- Possess a sophisticated awareness of the range of perspectives (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, values) towards the environment and human activity in the environment
- Evaluate environmental information and education programs
- Develop and implement strategies to foster conflict resolution, constructive dialogue and community knowledge construction concerning environmental issues
- Develop approaches to nurture effective and responsible environmental actions on the part of corporations, governmental and non-governmental organizations and citizens' coalitions
- Provide up to date information about innovations in environmental communication and education
- Possess a sophisticated awareness of the nature of contemporary human-environment issues and their implications for education and communications programs
- Develop a systems perspective on problems in environmental education and communications
- Develop an understanding of environmental education and communication functions within organizational contexts.
