2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POL 327 - Politics and Media


An analysis of the relationship between government and various forms of media-broadcast (television and radio), print (newspapers, magazines), and the internet; the influence of television on elections, campaign spending, public opinion formation; limits on the First Amendment in times of crisis, and government censorship of news reporting in times of war. The course includes benchmark Supreme Court cases defining the limits and extent of freedom of the press and the role of the Federal Communications Commission in defining the bounds of medial industry action.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed