To acquaint the student with the research methods in political communication.
Contents
A literature exam.
Teaching language
English
Modes of study
A literature exam on the books given below.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
-Kaid, Lynda Lee (ed.), Handbook of Political Communication Research. Mahwah (N.J.): Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.
and one of the following:
-King, Robert O Keohane & Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Princeton UP, 1994.
-Frey, Lawrence R., Investigating Communication: an introduction to research methods. Lawrence R. Frey, Carl H. Botan, Gary L. Kreps, 2nd ed.,Boston (Mass.): Allyn and Bacon, cop. 2000
-Berger, Media and communication research methods: an introduction to qualitative and quantitative approaches, Sage, cop. 2000