PUBLIC OPINION OF LIFE SCIENCE ISSUES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how all citizens form opinions and how societies reach consensus (or not) about the policy implications of about emerging (scientific) issues Audience: Graduate 2. Identify key theoretical models of opinion formation and the role that legacy media and online information ecologies play in each model Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate how communication and opinion formation processes work among different stakeholders, including players in the policy arena, scientists, journalists, and non-expert publics, with a particular focus on audiences that are not part of the proverbial choir Audience: Graduate 4. Assess the cultural, political, and economic impacts on (and of) societal debates surrounding science and technology Audience: Graduate 5. Make informed predictions about how opinion formation and expressions are likely to be reshaped by emerging communication environments Audience: Graduate 6. Explain the practical implications for communicating science in an increasingly polarized world Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how all citizens form opinions and how societies reach consensus (or not) about the policy implications of about emerging (scientific) issues Audience: Graduate 2. Identify key theoretical models of opinion formation and the role that legacy media and online information ecologies play in each model Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate how communication and opinion formation processes work among different stakeholders, including players in the policy arena, scientists, journalists, and non-expert publics, with a particular focus on audiences that are not part of the proverbial choir Audience: Graduate 4. Assess the cultural, political, and economic impacts on (and of) societal debates surrounding science and technology Audience: Graduate 5. Make informed predictions about how opinion formation and expressions are likely to be reshaped by emerging communication environments Audience: Graduate 6. Explain the practical implications for communicating science in an increasingly polarized world Audience: Graduate