Course Description
LANG 3024, Science Communication in English (Life Science), is a three-credit course offered to third-year students in Life Science. Over one semester, students will attend three hours of class and will be expected to complete up to three hours of out-of-class work per week. The course focusses on two overarching themes:
- Science communication and story-telling
- Communicating controversy in Life Science
You will gain an understanding of the importance of science communication and the role of story-telling therein, developing the skills to effectively analyse popular science articles and presentations aimed at the general public, as well as to use appropriate strategies to make your own science communication – writing and speaking – accessible and interesting to lay audiences.
You will gain an understanding of public attitudes to and controversies in Life Science and how such controversies are presented in speech and in writing, developing the skills to critically read and write about – as well as present – scientific controversies in an accessible and interesting way to lay audiences.