POLS 318 - American Elections and Mass Media

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SP, alternate years. The course provides a survey of the relationship between American politics and the mass communications media. The course covers the way the federal government, through its regulations and its dissemination of information, affects the operations of the media, campaigning and elections, and how the media influence the social and political values of Americans and the functioning of the political system. Recommended: POLS 101. Not offered 2020-2021.