Program Description
The MA in Environmental Education and Communication is a two year program that presents a range of theoretical and practical understandings about environmental education and communications and draws from a wide range of methodologies including case studies, field studies, cultural studies, team projects, lectures, seminar discussions, and online modules. As cultural understandings are an important part of education and communications, students will have opportunities to be engaged in discussions with holders of traditional, as well as scientific, knowledge. Royal Roads University has become a leader in the delivery of web-based, interactive, distance education courses, which will be of great value during non-residential periods.
The core of the program focuses on four themes:
- Science and philosophy of environment and sustainability
- Communicating about the environment (focus is on teaching, learning and communicating, evaluation/assessment of learning, traditional and contextualized knowledge)
- Communicating in the environment (focus is on program design, field studies, out of school experiences, informal learning settings).
- Communicating for the environment (social marketing, conflict resolution, action plans and projects, and community development).
Students should recognize that the distance component, an important feature of the program, enables them to continue their full-time employment while completing their graduate studies.
