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166-050 Communicating Politics | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-426. Students who have completed 166-426 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Graham Little |
Prerequisites | Admission to Fourth Year Honours in Political Science. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Subject Description | This subject asks, how should politics be communicated? Students will encounter and examine the usefulness and effectiveness of modes of communicating politics, such as: research followed by publication in academic journal or book; research and report-writing for government or public service committees; political commentary from the Canberra Press Gallery; television programs like Four Corners. Students will then consider alternatives to these obvious forms of political communication, such as: theatre, sermon, speeches, cartoons, graffiti, feature films, television drama and docu-dramas, talk shows, radio talk-back and expert commentary, popular music, dance, poetry, demonstrations, lobbying, street theatre, parades, novels, biography. Students who complete this subject should be able to: see a far wider range of options for communicating political knowledge; evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the observed options; adopt a critical-reflective attitude to the different modes of communicating politics. |
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