DIGITAL ADVOCACY: WITHIN/ WITHOUT BORDERS (PO5016)

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This course analyzes the rhetorical-cultural aspects of global advocacy, such as how to fashion persuasion that speaks to multiple national, ethnic, religious and political audiences about issues of transnational importance and which have the same or similar persuasive goals. Case studies will be used to move back and forth between theory and practice, where studying the practice will inform the theory, and vice-versa. The course will answer important questions for global advocates.

Code: 
PO5016
Name: 
DIGITAL ADVOCACY: WITHIN/ WITHOUT BORDERS
Discipline: 
PO (Politics)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
Major=MA: Diplomacy and International Law OR Major=MA: International Affairs OR Major=MA: Int'l Affairs, Conflict Res & Civ Society Dev
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
DIGITAL ADVOCACY: WITHIN/ WITHOUT BORDERS (CM5016)

Learning Outcomes

  1. How do particular forms of advocacy relate to theories of power, communication, democracy and social and policy change?
  2. How does attention control, persuasion and influence work via particular rhetorical choices in particular contingent situations?
  3. How is advocacy and activism being practiced in the digital age? And what tools and strategies are being used to intervene/practice?
  4. In particular cases and campaigns, how important is international and local networking, as well as technological savvy and strategy?
  5. This course aims to equip students with knowledge and skills to confidently answer the following questions by the end of the course: What is the relationship of advocacy and activism to policy processes and social change?

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