RISK COMMUNICATION
| Title | RISK COMMUNICATION / RISK COMMUNICATION |
| Code | RIC301 |
| Faculty | Social and Economic Sciences |
| School | Journalism and Mass Communications |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter |
| Coordinator | Nikolaos Panagiotou |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600000936 |
Programme of Study: Master of Arts in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism-R
Registered students: 10
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Journalism | Elective Courses | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Digital Media, Culture and Communication | Elective Courses | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism | Compulsory Course belonging to the selected specialization (Compulsory Specialization Course) | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2025 – 2026 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600285875
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EPIChallenges
- Sustainable Transformation
- European Values
- Global Health
- Future Intelligence
Type Of Offer
- Disciplinary Course
- Innovation Course
- Challenge-Based Training Offer
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600285875
- eLearning:
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
None required
Learning Outcomes
1. Capacity to identify tangible impact of environmental risks to soci-ety
2. Capacity to analyze and estimate risks critically from diverse per-spectives, espectially from a multi-stakeholder perspective
3. Ability to compare risks and and hazards by competing interests and stakeholders, while defending the ‘global public interest’
4. Focus on innovative journalistic methods and capacity to construct proactive stances for the universal common interest via education
5. See humanity’s welfare risks beyond borders or nationalistic scope
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This module examines an array of transfrontier: risks, threats, crises or disasters and global challenges. The aim is to clarify key concepts such as ‘risks’, resulting in disasters and to distinguish them from productive, ‘effective risk taking’. It focuses on their implications, past or ongoing, on predictable collateral damages, in the short and long term, feither acing humanity in part, or as a whole, at global or glocal levels. Vast disasters affect life, security, public health and environmental sustainability. The course presents case studies and relevant governance approaches or policy initiatives, undertaken at supranational level (UN agencies or the EU). It focuses on corresponding national or regional policies, but also on powerful reactions against them by vested interests. Key UN protocols and international law steps aiming to preempt or curb climate risks are discussed. Emphasis is on themes and guidelines for action, adopted by UN M-S and brought to prominence and public attention globally, f.ex. by the Rio Summit on Sustainability, or the Protocols of Montreal and of Kyoto, aiming to preemt environmental disasters such as ‘global warming’ or to remedy them.
Keywords
Risk, Risk communication, Calculation and control of Risk, Global Public Goods, Crisis Management
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 80 | ✓ | |||
| Project | 200 | ||||
| Total | 280 |
Student Assessment
Description
Course Evaluation: 25%, 15%, 15%, +45%
In class presence and participation in dialogue and simulation exercises 25%
Mid-term short written assignment on the method of ‘Pro et Contra Analysis’ 15%. Students [a] research and in class presentation of a topic individually and orally 15 %.
Students [b] submission of their final written paper-essay, at the end of the term 45%
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)
- Report (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Löfstedt Ragnar & Boholm Åsa, (2009), ‘Risk’, (eds), London, EarthScan Publishing
Kaul, Inge, Isabelle Grunberg & Mark A.Stern, (eds), (1999), ‘Global Public Goods’, Oxford University Press
Additional bibliography for study
Maxwell R., Raundalen J. & Lager Vestberg N., (eds), (2014), ‘Media and the Ecological Crisis’, New York, Routledge
Notably the tutor’s chapter: Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock, ‘E-waste, Human Waste, Infoflation’
• Beck Ulrich, (1991), ‘Risk Society’, Cambridge, Polity Press,
• Beck Ulrich, (2007), ‘World at Risk’, Cambridge, Polity Press
• Maxwell Richard, Jon Raundalen, Nina Lager Vestberg, (2014), ‘Media and the Ecological Crisis’, (eds), New York, Routledge
• Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock, (2014), ‘E-waste, Human Waste, Infoflation’, chap 5 in Maxwell Richard, Jon Raundalen, Nina Lager Vestberg, (2014), ‘Media and the Ecological Crisis’, (eds), New York, Routledge
• Stig A. Nohrstedt (ed), (2010), ‘Communicating Risks: Towards the Threat Society?’, Gothenburg, NORDICOM
• Beck Ulrich, (1988), ‘What Is Globalization?’ Polity Press, Cambridge
• Crenson A. Matthew (1971), ‘The Unpolitics of Air Pollution’, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London
• European Union, Commission, (2008), ‘A sustainable Future in Our Hands: guide to the EU’s sustainable development strategy’, CEC, Luxembourg
• George Soros, (1998), ‘The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Socie-ty Endangered’, New York, Public Affairs
• Gorz Andre, (1980), ‘Ecology as Politics’, South End Press, Boston
• Habermas Jurgen, (2003), ‘The Future of Human Nature’, Cam-bridge, Polity
• Löfstedt Ragnar & Boholm Åsa, (2009), ‘Risk’, (eds), London, EarthScan Publishing
• Martin Rees, (2003), ‘Our Final Century: will the human race sur-vive the twenty-first century?’, London, Heinemann
• Naomi Klein, (2008), ‘The Shock Doctrine’; Toronto, Random House Limited
• Ralston Saul John (1995), ‘The Unconscious Civilization’ , New York, Free Press
Last Update
05-01-2024
