Politics and Media in England Seminar

Summer 2006

 

Politics and Media in England is a seminar hosted by the Division of International Programs Abroad at Syracuse University. The seminar began with 30-35 hours of lectures on British politics and media in the first week. Then, for the next four weeks, our group interviewed roughly eight interviews per week for a total of thirty-two. These individuals, who are key figures in government and in the opposition to government, or from think tanks, media and universities, are not distant surveyors of data and argument. They typically have strong convictions drawn from intimate involvement in practice, and want to convince others of the rightness of their views by communicating their understandings of political and social realities. The goal of the seminar is to use the best instructional frameworks available to absorb and critique the views offered by the individuals interviewed.

Issues for summer 2006 include the succession issue within the Labour Party, the reinvention of the Conservative Party, security versus civil liberties post 7/7/05, education policy, enlargement of the European Union, globalization, ethnic cleavages, the continuing war in Iraq and a broad range of topics in the media.

To read more, the syllabus can be found here

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/mborouje/Courses/PSC473.htm