MCS 240 - Media and the Environment

3 credits
This course explores how various media from literature and photography to film, television, and digital platforms shapes and reflects our understanding of human and natural environments. Tracing representations from early landscape photography and scientific imagery to wildlife films, environmental media of the 1960s, and today’s activist campaigns and recycling aesthetics, the course examines how visual and narrative forms influence environmental awareness and action. Students will be introduced to core concepts in environmental communication, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, analyzing media’s evolving role in environmental debates.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or ENG 101