Special Topics in Political Science (390-0-32)

Instructors

Erik Colin Nisbet

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 3220: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

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.