Type of Credit: Elective
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[本課獲110年高教深耕計畫數位互動課程（E計畫）補助]
The first class on September 13 will be on-line due to COVID-19 situation. Please use the following M Teams link for real-time connection:
All our class materials and recorded videos can be found on the class website:
https://mset.nccu.edu.tw/login/?lang=zh_tw
(This syllabus was updated on September 10, 2021.)
“Risk Communication” is a new course offered by the International Master’s Program in International Communication Studies. It has received a grant as a digital interactive online course (Program E) for 2021 Higher Education SPROUT Program. Therefore, in addition to face-to-face class activities among the registered students, instructor and joint lecturers, this course is open to interested people within and outside the university community, both domestically and internationally.
Generally, this course aims to address global risk issues closely related to modern society. From a cross-disciplinary perspective, it hopes to help students understand, pay attention to, make good use of, and reflect on the role of communication (including mass media) in confronting global risk issues and disputes, and rethink the relationship between risk, society, and the public. The risk issues discussed in this course not only focus on social stakeholders in Taiwan in recent years, but also based on Taiwan’s current international society and global geographic location. Thus, issues and case studies to be discussed will also include but not limited to those in the US, East Asia or Pan-Pacific regions, such as Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, etc. To do so, we will invite both international and local joint lecturers to address those case studies. We hope to develop and extend research directions and practical response strategies related to risk management and risk communication through cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons. The risk cases covered in this course will start with today's high-risk controversies both locally and globally, including various food safety and food crisis issues, infectious diseases and vaccines, and environmental crises such as climate change.
The course features a strong international pool of lecturers. Besides the host instructor Dr. Mei-Ling Hsu from NCCU College of Communication, the joint lecturers include Dr. Shirley S. Ho (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dr. Flora Hung-Baesecke (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Dr. Jenny Ho (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Dr. Poyao Huang (School of Public Health, National Taiwan University), and Dr. John Chung-En Liu (Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University).
Students participating in this class will need to sign a form of Interactive Online Course Enrollment Agreement (see attached file) to give consent and permission to the University's legal use of the recorded class and on-line activities.
能力項目說明
Goals:
Learning Outcomes:
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週次 Week |
日期 Date |
課程主題 Topic |
課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment* |
教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework |
學習投入時間 Student workload expectation |
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課堂講授 In-class Hours |
課程前後 Outside-of-class Hours |
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1 |
9/13 |
Introduction |
Introduction to course schedule (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture; self-introduction of class students |
3 |
2 |
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2 |
9/20 |
Bridge Holiday |
Mid-Autumn Festival |
No class |
0 |
0 |
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3
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9/27 |
Risk communication |
Introduction to concepts and theories of risk communication studies and practices (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture |
3 |
5 |
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4 |
10/4 |
Health risk |
Health risk: Introduction to theories and research related to health risk (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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5 |
10/11 |
Bridge Holiday |
National Day |
No class |
0 |
0 |
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6 |
10/18 |
Crisis communication |
Risk management and crisis communication (taught by Flora Hung-Baesecke) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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7 |
10/25 |
Issue management |
Issue management: Scenario planning and issue management in risk lifecycle; case studies in Australia (taught by Jenny Hou) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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8 |
11/1 |
Disaster communication |
Transmedia storytelling in disaster risk communication; case studies in Australia (taught by Jenny Hou) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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9 |
11/8 |
Risk perception and communicating uncertainty |
Risks and uncertainty pertaining to public perceptions of nuclear energy and novel food technologies; case studies in Singapore (taught by Shirley S. Ho) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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10 |
11/15 |
Food crisis |
Food crisis: Social media influence in food risk communication; case studies in Australia (taught by Jenny Hou) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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11 |
11/22 |
Food safety |
Food safety: Using the situational theory of problem solving examining the context of the imports of US beef to Taiwan (taught by Flora Hung-Baesecke) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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12 |
11/29 |
Proposal presentation |
Term paper proposal presentation (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu and Jenny Hou) |
Individual oral presentation of term paper proposal and Q & A |
3 |
5 |
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13 |
12/6 |
Infectious diseases |
Risk communication of HIV/AIDS: A comparative perspective (taught by Po-yao Huang) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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14 |
12/13 |
Infectious diseases and vaccination |
Media construction and public opinion of infectious diseases and vaccination; case studies in Taiwan, US, China…etc. (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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15 |
12/20 |
Environmental risk |
Environmental risk: Introduction and discussion of theories and research related to environmental risk (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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16 |
12/27 |
Climate change I |
Sociological perspectives on climate change communication: Examples from Taiwan, China, and the United States (taught by John Chung-En Liu) |
Joint lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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17 |
1/3 |
Climate change II |
Media construction and public perception of climate change (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Instructor lecture; class discussion and Q & A of assigned readings |
3 |
5 |
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18 |
1/10 |
Term paper presentation |
Registered students present their own term projects on chosen case study of a risk communication issue (taught by Mei-Ling Hsu) |
Individual or group presentation of case study projects, depending on the class size |
3 |
5 |
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*All reading assignments (TBA) will be posted digitally on the class on-line platform.
Students’ performance will be evaluated by the following criteria. The criteria are subject to change depending on the size of class. As this class highly emphasizes students’ reflection of the issues in discussion, students are expected to be actively involved in the Q &Ａsessions, either in class or online.
Assigned readings will be provided in electronic form to the registered students at the beginning of the Fall semester. The following is a general list of references related to this course.
References:
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Journal of Risk Research, Public Understanding of Science, Risk Analysis.
Adam, B., Beck, U., & van Loon, J. (2000). The risk society and beyond: Critical issues for social theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Bennett, P., & Calman, K. (Eds.) (1999). Risk communication and public health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Boykoff, M. T. (2011). Who speaks for the climate: Making sense of media reporting on climate change). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Caplan, P. (2000). Risk revisited. London, UK: Pluto Press.
Cho, H., Reimer, T., & McComas, K. A. (Eds.) (2015). The SAGE handbook of risk communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Corbett, J. B. (2006). Communicating nature: How we create and understand environmental messages. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Doyle, J. (2011). Mediating climate change. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.
Dryzek, J. S., Norgaard, R. B. & Schlosberg, D. (Eds.) (2011). The Oxford handbook of climate change and society. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hacket, R. A., Forde, S., Gunster, S., & Foxwell- Norton, K. (Eds.) (2017). Journalism and climate crisis: Public engagement, media alternatives. London, UK: Routledge.
Hansen, A. (2010). Environment, media and communication. London, UK: Routledge.
Lester, L. (2010). Media & environment. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Levi, R. (2001). Medical journalism. Ames, IW: Iowa State University Press.
Lundgren, R. E., & McMakin, A. H. (2013). Risk communication: A handbook for communicating environmental, safety, and health risks, 5th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John, Wiley & Sons.
Pezzullo, P. C., & Cox, R. (2018). Environmental communication and the public sphere (Chapter 1. Defining environmental communication, 5th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Schäfer, M. S., Markowitz, E., Thaker, J., Ho ,S. S., O'Neill, S., Matthew C. Nisbet, M. C. (Eds.) (2017). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2021). Theorizing crisis communication. John Wiley & Sons.
Senecah, S. (Ed.) (2014). The environmental communication yearbook, vols. 1-3 Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Singer, E., & Endreny, P. M. (1993). Reporting on risk: How the mass media portray accidents, diseases, disasters and other hazards. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
Slovic, P. (Ed.) (2010). The feeling of risk: New perspectives on risk perception. London, UK: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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