COM 450 - Media, Propaganda and Social Change

Senior standing; COM 301/JRN 301, COM 304/THE 304, COM 320; or consent of instructor. (3)

The role of mass communication in social movements, propaganda, and social change. The nature and rhetorical strategies of propaganda in historical and current events. Social movements and propaganda campaigns including the Crusades, Reformation, Antislavery, WW I, WW II, Cold War, Hipsters, Anti War, Civil Rights, Advertising, Northern Ireland, the War on Terror; sociological propaganda. Graded ABCDE