CREATIVE COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

How can creative forms of communication help us respond to the climate crisis and other urgent problems? How much does fictional media actually change peoples' minds? This course examines these and related questions by considering examples of creative communication for social change (such as film, TV, standup comedy, social media, memes, and graffiti) and situating them within research on influence and persuasion from communication studies, psychology, and sociology. For their final project, students will apply these lessons by crafting their own creative communication on a topic of their choice. Cross-list: MDIA 384 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENST 384 if student has credit for ENGL 207.