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Internship in environmental communication

This course offers the opportunity to do an internship as a part of your environmental communication education during a minimum of 5 weeks. As part of the course, the student reflects on and writes about the experiences of environmental communication relevant situations, and about the social norms and processes appearing in the organization. The student writes a report and holds a presentation at the end of the course.

Information from the course leader

This is a course only for students of the Environmental Communication and Management programme. All conversation happens via Canvas. If you have any questions or would like to join the Canvas page, please contact the course leader.

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

ÖT0002-10366 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for ÖT0002

Academic year 2022/2023

Internship in environmental communication (ÖT0002-10075)

2022-08-29 - 2022-10-31

Academic year 2021/2022

Internship in environmental communication (ÖT0002-10278)

2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01

Academic year 2020/2021

Internship in environmental communication (ÖT0002-10242)

2020-08-31 - 2020-11-01

Academic year 2019/2020

Internship in environmental communication (ÖT0002-10076)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2018/2019

Internship in environmental communication (ÖT0002-10165)

2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11

Syllabus and other information

Litterature list

The literature list has been selected to further strengthen your ability to reflect on experiences from the internship, and are expected to use some of these in your ARP. At the bottom of the list you will also find the text regarding the IMRAD format for writing the ARP and on the complex issues of anonymization in ethnographic fieldwork.

Books

Please get any of these books from the library or purchase them.

Lave, D. & Wenger, E. 1991. Situated Learning

[Description from publisher] In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Goffman, E. 1959. The presentation of self in everyday life.

Goffman’s book is a real sociological classic. Many people, including sociologists perceive it as provocative. [Description from publisher] A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

Turner, J. 2002. Face to Face.

Jonathan Turner summarizes the processes and mechanisms involved in interpersonal behaviour and how they are constrained by human biology, social structure and culture. The aim of the book is to summarize a unified, general theory of what happens when people interact.

Nicolini, D. 2012. Practice Theory, Work, and Organization - An Introduction

[Description from publisher] This book is a rigorous yet accessible introduction to contemporary practice theories, discussing their distinctive contribution to the study of work and organizations. It surveys their origins, theoretical assumptions, concepts, and application.

Scientific journal articles

Barge, J. K., & Craig, R. T. (2009). Practical theory in applied communication scholarship. In L. R. Frey & K. N. Cissna (Eds.), Routledge handbook of applied communication research (pp. 95–118). Routledge.

Gherardi, S. & B. Poggio (2001) Creating and recreating gender order in organizations, in Journal of World Business, 36 (3): 245–259.

Gosovic, A. K. J. (2019). Gifts, reciprocity and ethically sound ethnographic research: a reflexive framework. Journal of Organizational Ethnography.

Handley, K., Sturdy, A., Fincham, R., & Clark, T. (2006). Within and beyond communities of practice: Making sense of learning through participation, identity and practice. Journal of management studies, 43(3), 641-653.

Pink, S. & Morgan, J. (2013) Short-Term Ethnography: Intense Routes to Knowing. Symbolic Interaction. 36 (3): 351–361

Somerville, D., Keeling, J. (2004) A practical approach to promote reflective practice within nursing. Nursing Times; 100(12) 42–45.

Wenger, E. (2011). Communities of practice: A brief introduction Download Wenger, E. (2011). Communities of practice: A brief introduction

Yanow, D. & Tsoukas, H. (2009) What is Reflection-In-Action? A Phenomenological Account. Journal of management studies 46(8):1339 – 1364.

Further Reading

Text regarding IMRAD format for ARP:

Nair, P. K. R., & Nair, V. D. (2014). Organization of a Research Paper: The IMRAD Format. In P. K. R. Nair & V. D. Nair (Eds.), Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources (pp. 13–25). Springer.

Essay about the issues of anonymisation and trust in ethnographic fieldwork:

Rhoads, R. A. (2020). “Whales Tales” On the Run: Anonymizing Ethnographic Data in an Age of Openness. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 20(5), 402-413.

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: No The course is offered as a programme course: Environmental Communication and Management - Master's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 26170 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (AXX)
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Course code: ÖT0002 Application code: SLU-10366 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Urban and Rural Development Pace: 100%