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COMM_ST 380-0 : Political Communication

Description

This seminar focuses on the theory, practice, and problems of political communication designed for both communication majors and non-majors. This course will introduce you to a wide-range of processes and problems of mediated political communication, from elections, political advertising, and political news to political entertainment, humor, and social media, etc. primarily within a democratic context, specifically the United States. Furthermore, political communication is fabric that holds a participatory democracy together - and thus our examination of political communication is intrinsically tied to understanding the health of American democracy and how political communication contributes to it for better or worse.

This class is an asychronous class with no scheduled online meetings.