Taught By:
Hunter Vaughan
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual and Media Arts
Emerson College
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Motivation for Teaching Social Action:
Passion for integrating social and environmental action into undergraduate classrooms.
Course Description:
Introducing students to the burgeoning new subfield of environmental media studies, this course explores how screen media reflect and shape public perception and action around urgent environmental issues such as climate destabilization, species extinction, and resource use. Students will survey key readings in environmental media, ecocinema, and infrastructure studies, and analyze a variety of media texts to address ways in which screen culture represents environmental issues, how our media practices and infrastructures materially impact the environment, and how the materiality and messaging of screen media are connected to intersectional problems of social power and environmental justice.
