3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionData from last updated 2/18/2026
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
This course examines the roles and influences of the mass media on American politics generally and with particular emphasis on election campaigns and the evolving political culture of the U.S.
Learning Outcomes1Understand how media influence perceptions of political issues and events.
2Recognize the importance of media in the formation and maintenance of individual attitudes and public opinion.
3Able to create and analyze political messages in the context of campaigns.
4Understand gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other forms of diversity in relation to mass and political communications.
5Able to write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for communications professions and audiences.
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