COMMUNICATION, MEDIA & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

COMMUNICATION & MEDIA: The aim of this course is to help students understand the process of producing and distributing messages through mass communication, the profound role mass media play in society and how mass media industries have been changing over the past fifteen years. Key issues covered in class include: The primary activities of mass media, government regulation of and financial support to mass media industries, audience segmentation, new media technologies compared to traditional media, the interconnection of mass media industries and the global role of mass media as they operate today. The teaching of the material is enriched with related videos and in-class discussions. Students are required to submit an assignment on a related topic in which they are to include major concepts covered in class during the academic year.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Ancient and Mediaeval Western Political Political Thought
Plato: Ideal State, Justice, Education, Communism – Aristotle: Aristotle’s method, Teleology, Notion of State, Justice, Slavery and Revolution – Cicero: Natural Law, State – Introduction to Medieval Thought: Theory of Two Swords – Thomas Aquinas: Theory of Knowledge and Law -Thomas Aquinas: Theory of Knowledge and Law
Comparative Politics: Concepts and Models – Comparative Politics: Meaning, nature and scope – Approaches to the study of Comparative Politics: Behavioral, System, Structural-Functional and Marxist approach – Bases of classification of political systems: models of political system: Traditional, modern , liberal- democratic, authoritarian and populist -Political Ideology: Meaning and characteristics, debate on the decline of ideology – Political Culture: Concepts, determinants and types, contemporary trends, political culture and development.