Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) 
    
2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

POL 329 - Campaigns: History, Practices, Communication

Three Credits
Spring Semester

Political communication is as old as civilization.  When a group gathers, leaders emerge, and how they got there, and how they maintain their leadership, their power, is a function of political communication.  We will focus on American political communication throughout American history with heavy emphasis on communication in the television era and how political speech evolved (or devolved) from formal language, biblical reference and hour plus speeches to television ads, sound bites and twitter bombs.