COMS232-24S2 (D) Semester Two 2024 (Distance)

Risk and Crisis Communication

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This applied course introduces students to a major area of the planning of communication, the management of risk. Theories of risk, crisis and the risk society are described, before the course focuses in detail on the practice of risk communication, including communication planning, crafting messages and involving communities in collective risk decision-making. Risks explored range from individuals' health and safety, disasters, reputational crises and pervasive risks such as climate change. This course has on-campus and distance options. You will learn from professional guests, and from each other, to develop skills in evaluating and planning crisis response.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from COMS, or
either ENVR101 or GEOG106, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Contact Person

Zita Joyce

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Tutorial Attendance and Participation 10% Tutorial Attendance and Participation 10% (1% for 10/11 tutorials) Weeks 2-12
Blog Post 1 04 Aug 2024 10% Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) Discussion
Essay 25 Aug 2024 30% Essay on Risk Communication Practice
Blog Post 2 15 Sep 2024 10% Ethics Discussion of Case Study
Blog Post 3 29 Sep 2024 10% Crisis Communication Analysis of Case Study
Crisis Communication Plan 30% (5% presentation, 25% written submission) Presentation during week 12.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $844.00

International fee $3,950.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All COMS232 Occurrences

  • COMS232-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024
  • COMS232-24S2 (D) Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
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