Location: Encina Hall, Room 400
Time: M 1.30 - 4.20
Instructor: Shanto Iyengar (siyengar@stanford.edu)
Office Hours: 445 Encina Hall, Tue 1-2pm (and by appt.)
Class website: comm360g.stanford.edu
The seminar provides an overview of research in political communication with special reference to work on the impact of the mass media on public opinion and voting behavior. Students are asked to submit four papers. Three will be critical syntheses of a designated subset of the readings. These short papers (3-4 pages, double-spaced) will set 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 sub-field of political communication. The research proposal will account for fifty percent of the course grade with the remainder being divided (evenly) between the three review papers.
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