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Political Communication

Course code

RIT6026.YK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Poliitiline kommunikatsioon

Course title in English

Political Communication

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Karl-Hendrik Pallo (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To provide an overview of political communication as a discipline and its applications in various processes of governance and politics. The aim is to provide both academic insight and the possibility of practical analysis both in institutional processes (elections, functioning of state and media institutions) and grassroots events (citizens as audience and participant).

Brief description of the course

Political communication as an object of analysis. Political communication and democracy. Arenas of political communication. Journalist as an actor in politics. Political communicators and their arsenal of techniques. Election campaigns and other political campaigns. Political communication in society, creating and leading changes through it.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has acquired the basic vocabulary related to political communication and an overview of its different approaches;
- has prior knowledge and basic skills for effective and responsible political communication;
- has developed the ability to analyze political and communicative processes;
- is a more informed media consumer than before and can make sense of the activities of political communicators and journalists in the daily flow of political information.

Teacher

Mari-Liis Jakobson, Karl-Hendrik Pallo

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