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Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Welcome Students from UVA’s Political Communication Seminar

Matthew C. Nisbet

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University classes for the spring semester are in full swing, and several courses have integrated blogs and the evaluation of such into their class content. As previously posted, UNC’s English 12 course has paid a visit here to Framing Science, and now UVA’s Dept. of Politics seminar on Political Communication is doing likewise.

Welcome students from Prof. Claiborne’s course. Please have fun navigating and evaluating my blog. Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, and feedback in the comments section of this post or others.

Of interest as political science majors, from the fall semester, see this class blog debate” involving the students from my Communication & Society course here at American University, and the reading list for the same course scheduled this spring.

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