OLLI101548 - Reliving the Blacklist thru Jewish Eyes (Part 2) (IN PERSON AT TUCC)
Course Description
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CYBER AGE
Instructor: Stan Cutler
Day of Week: Wednesday
Dates: Jan 31 – Mar 13 (6 sessions)
No Class: Mar 6
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: In-person at TUCC
The course examines the influence of communication technologies on elections, public consciousness, and democratic institutions. Attendees view slide presentations and links to examples of campaign advertising, broadcast debates, and news programming to frame discussions about the interplay between the audience, the advocate, the message, media, and money. Opportunities for reform are discussed. New slides on current events, populism and the First Amendment have been added since the course was last offered.
Pre-Requisite: An open mind and a love for learning.
Maximum In-Person: 30
Instructor Bio:
Stan Cutler, formerly on Penn State’s Speech and Communications faculty, enjoyed a long career in information technology until his retirement. Since then, he has written a book about political convention rhetoric and seven mystery novels, including a current Amazon best seller, Three Percent of the Vote about election fraud. He is a contributing columnist for the Chestnut Hill Local and on the Board of the Friends of the Library. In 2015, alarmed by the debasement of political rhetoric, he began teaching the fundamentals of rhetoric as they apply to political speech at lifelong learning venues in and around Philadelphia, continually updating the material in keeping with recent events. He taught his first course at OLLI in 2019.
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