Comm 360g: Overview
Readings will be available on the course website (http://comm360g.stanford.edu/readings). Coursework will not be used for this seminar.
Summary
The seminar is designed to provide an overview of research in political communication with particular reference to work on the impact of the mass media on public opinion. Participants are asked to submit four papers. Three will be critical reviews of a particular subset of the readings. These short papers (3-4 pages, double-spaced) will provide the agenda for in-class discussion. The fourth paper will be more extensive; you are asked to propose a line of research that extends the state of knowledge in a particular area of the field. The proposal will account for fifty percent of the course grade with the remainder being divided (evenly) between the three review papers.