This course investigates the ways human and natural environments have been shaped by media representations and technologies, extending from newspapers, photography, and popular literature, to film, television, and video games. Integrating eco-cinema, eco-criticism, environmental communication, and environmental studies, the course explores how environments are represented in visual media through different historical and social contexts, beginning with the rise of landscape photography, scientific representations of nature, and "fictional" wildlife films, to environmental media works in the 1960s to the role of contemporary interactive and "recycling" based aesthetics.