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SUMMER 2009 COURSE DESCRIPTION: SIS-496 N01L
 
Because You're Going Places
Course Title Dates
SIS-496 N01L
Foreign Media & Public Opinion in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
5/11/09-
6/25/09
Instructor: Shalini Venturelli  
This course examines the changing nature and rising influence of diverse foreign media organizations in shaping domestic and international public opinion, especially with respect to the conduct of foreign policy and resulting implications for geopolitics and international order. The course targets recurrent cross-cultural patterns in foreign media and international journalism that carry geopolitical significance in areas such as global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, civil and ethnic conflict, religious extremism, globalization and global trade, civilizational tensions, global environmental crises, and attitudes toward the United States and its allies.
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