该选项侧重于沟通和社会系统如何影响环境事务并塑造我们对非人类世界的看法。它涉及修辞和话语，新闻媒体，公众参与，倡导运动，协作，解决冲突，风险沟通，社会过程以及自然在文学和大众文化中的表现等主题。此外，该选项还可以帮助学生探索理解环境问题的方式以及表达自然的文化含义的方式的多样性，包括通过文学和艺术。无论您的职业道路是什么方向，对战略，基于系统的，熟练的沟通动态和流程的理解的关键价值都不会被夸大。
This option focuses on how communication and social systems influence environmental affairs and shape our perceptions of the non-human world. It addresses the subjects of rhetoric and discourse, news media, public participation, advocacy campaigns, collaboration, conflict resolution, risk communication, social processes, and representations of nature in literature and popular culture. In addition, the option helps students explore the diversity of ways that environmental problems are understood, and ways that cultural meanings of nature are expressed, including through literature and the arts. No matter where your career path leads, the critical value of having a strategic, systems-based, and skilled understanding of communication dynamics and processes cannot be exaggerated.