Politics 401A - ST:Public Communication and Community-Based Research:Latinos in Washington State Apostolidis

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Whitman College

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This course enables students who have completed courses for the project on The State of the State for Washington Latinos to develop their skills in public communication about their research. It also challenges them to think critically about the dilemmas regarding power and democracy that are posed when policy investigators seek to make specialized research accessible to general audiences (including non-English speakers), professional policymakers, organizational leaders, and media representatives. Students will read and discuss texts on democratic theory along with texts on communication and the media. They will also carry out public communications projects such as these: making oral and visual presentations at local public meetings; writing journalistic pieces for the State of the State Web site; meeting with state policymakers about their research; contributing to a Web site that compiles policy research from multiple community-based research projects; presenting research at other colleges; and doing press, radio, and TV interviews. In the process, students will also revise and supplement their prior research as necessary. Prerequisites: Either Politics 458 or Politics 404A (Spring 2008). Distribution area: social science; alternative voices.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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