Index#: 03720
Will Count Towards Journalism and Media Studies Major
Will NOT Count Towards Journalism and Media Studies Minor
The course examines the 2020 election in its historical context. Studying the history of the campaign should encourage students to think in a more rigorous, scholarly way about a topic that many of us will be talking about anyway. As a class, we’ll follow the ups and downs and twists and turns of the election season. But we’ll also try to understand how campaigns have come to take the form that they do. We’ll use the insights of political scientists to challenge conventional wisdom and journalistic clichés, and we’ll study media and communications research to understand how the election is portrayed to voters.
About Professor Greenberg
DAVID GREENBERG is a professor of History and of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and a frequent commentator in the national news media on contemporary politics and public affairs. He specializes in American political and cultural history. His most recent book, Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (W.W. Norton, 2016) examines the rise of the White House spin machine, from the Progressive Era to the present day, and the debates that Americans have waged over its implications for democracy.