Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Intro To Political Comm
Term
2019C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
401
Section ID
PSCI232401
Course number integer
232
Meeting times
T 01:30 PM-04:30 PM
Meeting location
ANNS 109
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Doron Benjamin Taussig
Description
This course is an introduction to the field of political communication, conceptual approaches to analyzing communication in various forms, including advertising, speech making, campaign debates, and candidates' and office-holders' uses of social media and efforts to frame news. The focus of this course is on the interplay in the U.S. between media and politics. The course includes a history of campaign practices from the 1952 presidential contest through the election of 2016.
Course number only
232
Cross listings
COMM226401
Use local description
No