Environmental & Sustainability Studies: Society, Culture & Communication

Degree Concentration: Society, Culture and Communication

School of Environmental Studies
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About Society, Culture and Communication

  • Choose a Program of Study in:

    • Communication & Media

    • Social Science & Policy

    • Leadership & Environmental Management

  • Learn how social systems interact with the environment.
  • Explore how cultural values and beliefs influence the way people use the environment.
  • Study how organizations address environmental problems and how complex concepts regarding those issues are communicated.

Research

  • Environmental & Sustainability Studies programs at Tennessee Tech are supported by cutting-edge resource centers:
  • The Center for the Management, Utilization, and Protection of Water Resources and the Millard Oakley STEM Center for the Teaching and Learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

ESS at Tennessee Tech

  • These concentrations offer students the opportunity to pursue their passions in a meaningful way as they apply scientific principles to environmental issues.
  • Course work examines current topics through social, political and economic perspectives.
  • Students analyze and propose sustainable solutions for complex, real-world environmental problems.
  • The program culminates in a a hands-on experience or research project addressing an actual environmental problem.

 

Society, Culture & Communication: Communication & Media / 45 hours



Concentration Core  (21 hours) / Required for Each Focus of Study

Curriculum: Communication & Media

Choose 4 of the following: (12 hours)

  • JOUR 2220 
News Reporting  (3)
  • 
JOUR 3460  
Public Relations  (3)
  • 
PC 3700  
Technical Documents  (3)
  • 
PC 4970  
Prof. Comm. II  (3)

  • SPCH 3620  
Intercultural Comm.  (3)

  • SPCH 4410  
Org. Comm.  (3)

  • SPCH 4630  
Persuasion  (3)

  • WEBD 1500  
Intro. to WEB Design (3)

  • WEBD 2300  
WEBSite Design  (3)
  • 
ESS 4900 Internship  (3)


Free Electives  (12 hours)

Year by Year Course Outline

ESS Society Culture Communication BEST7

 

 

 

Society, Culture & Communication: Social Science & Policy / 45 hours



Concentration Core  (21 hours) / Required for Each Focus of Study

Curriculum: Social Science & Policy Option

Choose 
4 of the following:  (12)  



  • GEOG 1110, 1120, or 1130  (3)
 World Geography, Human Geography, or Geography of Natural Hazards

  • POLS 3300  
State and Local Govt.  (3)

  • POLS 3700  
Legislative Process (3)

  • POLS 4610  
Public Adm and Public 
Policies  (3)

  • SOC 3720  
Rural Sociology  (3)

  • SOC 4090  
Cross-Cultural Comm.  (3)

  • SOC 4330  
Population and Social Process  (3)
  • 
SOC 4860  
Social Movements/Process  (3)
  • 
ESS 4900  
Internship  (3)


Free Electives  (12)

Year by Year Course Outline

ESS Society Culture Communication BEST7

 

Society, Culture & Communication: Leadership & Environmental Management / 45 hours



Concentration Core  (21 hours) / Required for Each Focus of Study

Curriculum: Leadership & Environmental Management Option


Choose the following four courses:  (12)

  • SPCH 4410  
Org. Communication  (3)

  • PADM 4226  
Intro. to Nonprofit Org.  (3)

  • PSY 3590  
Psychology of Personality  (3)
  • 
ESS 4300  
Environ. Management Syst.  (3)


Free Electives  (12)

Year by Year Course Outline

ESS Society Culture Communication BEST7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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