COMS 5890 Media and Propaganda

Participants in this seminar examine the history, theories, techniques, and results of political and sociological propaganda in society, focusing on the relationships among agitation propaganda, integration propaganda and social engineering, and the mass media in our technological society. Our analyses are supported by readings, screenings, writing assignments, and select case studies. Case studies will be drawn from public relations, commercial advertising, the news media, mass and popular culture, social movements, textbook revisions in the school, wartime propaganda, and political campaigning.
Credits: 3.0