Environmental Communication Course

CIFAL York Focusing AreasDisaster Risk, Emergency Management and Humanitarian ActionsHealth, Development, Environment & Climate ChangeEquity, Diversity & InclusionEntrepreneurship, Digital Technology, and Economic DevelopmentAdvancing UN Sustainable Development Goals

CIFAL York, York University

Providing youth with a meaningful portal to participate in the policy process of the UNFCCC’s annual climate summits, the COP conferences.

Course Instructor: Dr. Mark TerryMark Terry, certified in climate integration for educational programs by UNITAR, UNCC, and UNICEF, has been providing visible evidence of climate research to the United Nations since 2009. He is also a Professor in the Department of Communications and Media Studies at York University and in the Department of English and Film at Wilfrid Laurier University.Dr. Terry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the Explorers Club. He is also the Executive Director of the UNFCCC’s Youth Climate Report, a digital database of documentary film reports made by the global community of youth. Last year, this project was recognized by the National Communication Association in Washington with its J. Robert Cox Award for Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement.Outside of academia, Dr. Terry is the Director of the Social and Sustainability Program for the City of Vaughan in Canada working with businesses to create corporate mandates that adhere to all 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. With a focus on environmental themes, Dr. Terry is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in the polar regions: The Changing Face of Iceland (2023), The Polar Explorer (2011), The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009).He has authored three books detailing his research in sustainability and environmental communications: The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change (2020); The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities (2022); and Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations (2023).

<h2>Course Syllabus</h2>Morning Session: 9:30 am to 12:00Lecture 1: Introduction to Environmental Communications (9:30 to 10:30)Lecture 2: Geomedia and Digital Media as Communication Tools (10:30 to 11:30)Q&amp;A: 11:30 to 12:00Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pmWorkshop 1: Building a Geo-Doc Platform (1:00 pm to 2:30 pm)Workshop 2: Producing an Ecocinematic Documentary Film (2:30 to 4:00 pm)Deadline 1: Two Weeks following the in-class course dayDeadline 2: One month following the in-class course day.Attendance and Project completion are required to earn the certificate.For more information visit course website <a href="https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/environmental-communication" title="https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/environmental-communication" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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