Overview
Environmental, science, and health communication is the study of how individuals, organizations, institutions and cultures communicate about the environment, science and health through language, images, and practice.
The Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk program at University of Utah believes that how humans communicate about environmental, science, and health issues effects culture, knowledge, policy, important practices, and ultimately the health of people and the planet.
Interpersonal conversation, popular culture, rhetorical situations, mass media, corporate communication, institutions, and consumer behavior are some of the contexts through which understandings of the environment, science, and health are constituted and communicated.
Our program focuses on how communicative practices in a variety of settings are both constrained and create resistance and change. Faculty have recently studied a variety of issues such as effectiveness of media health campaigns , Native American resistance to hazardous waste placement, environmental sustainability, historical media depictions of nuclear testing, Chinese environmental NGO strategies, Chinese NGOs, obesity narratives, and how the media frame cancer information.
Graduate Workshops
A regular slate of graduate workshops is offered each year to all graduate students to ensure their socialization, professionalization, intellectual development, and success navigating the program and the discipline.
Workshop topics include but are not limited to writing; conference submission and presentation; publishing; grantwriting; “Brown Bag” sessions with individual faculty; and navigating various stages of the job market
Programme Structure
Curriculum
- Effectiveness of media health campaigns
- Native American resistance to hazardous waste placement
- Environmental sustainability
- Historical media depictions of nuclear testing
- Chinese environmental NGO strategies
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Communication Studies Risk Management Environmental Management View 15 other PhDs in Environmental Management in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Statement of your personal and professional goals (approximately 800 words).
- Academic writing sample no longer than 25 pages (i.e. term paper, thesis chapter, creative writing sample, published newspaper articles).
- DEI/IDEA Statement
- A curriculum vita or short resume.
- Unofficial transcripts of all previous college and university coursework.
- The names and email addresses of three people who will write recommendations.
Tuition Fee
Living costs for Salt Lake City
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