Course: Propaganda and Persuasion

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Course title Propaganda and Persuasion
Course code KOL/VPROP
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
(1) What is propaganda? (2) Propaganda vs persuasive communication and rhetoric (3) History of propaganda (4) What is diplomacy? (5) International media - news vs propaganda (6) What are psychological operations? (7) From the information war to the information operations (8) Analyzing propaganda (9) Four case studies

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is encourage students to discuss persuasive communication, present several ways it can be approached and show some of the tools the 20th century governments used as part of their information policies to win support for their foreign interests; the course will be backed by case studies and other examples. Among the topics analyzed in course will be: international TV and radio broadcasting, news reporting, culture and other ways of going persuasive.
Have knowledge of major topics of persuasive communication Be able to critically assess a media message in terms of its informative and persuasive characteristics Be able to analyze persuasive communication in the included case studies
Prerequisites
Reading English

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam, Essay, Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student

(1) regular class attendance (80%) (2) regular homework / reading assignments (students will form work groups to read assigned texts and discuss assigned questions prior to each class) (3) discussion of assigned reading related questions (4) essay based on one of the discussed topics (5-10 pages) (5) one-to-one discussion of a selected topic and of the essay
Recommended literature
  • Bittman, L. (2000). Mezinárodní dezinformace: černá propaganda, aktivní opatření a tajné akce. Praha.
  • Cull, N. J. - Culbert, D. - Welch, D. (2003). Propaganda and mass persuasion: a historical encyclopedia, 1500 to the present. Santa Barbara.
  • Ellul, J. (1965). Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. New York.
  • Fidelius, P. (1998). Řeč komunistické moci. Praha.
  • Jowett, G. S. - O´Donnell, V. (2006). Propaganda and Persuasion. 4. ed. Thousand Oaks.
  • Jowett, G. S. - O´Donnell, Victoria, (eds.). (2006). Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays. Thousand Oaks.
  • Klemperer, V. (2003). Jazyk Třetí říše - LTI: poznámky filologovy. Jinočany.
  • Macura, V. et al. (2008). Šťastný věk (a jiné studie o socialistické kultuře. Praha.
  • Taylor, P. M. (1995). Munitions of Mind: War Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Nuclear Age. Manchester.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -