Historians in NH, Iowa & elsewhere building courses around the 2008 campaign
Political-science and history professors throughout Iowa, New Hampshire, and even in states without early causes and primaries, are mining the real-life political lessons of the 2008 election season for class assignments, projects, and reading lists.
In Iowa, Rachel P. Caufield, an associate professor of politics and international relations at Drake University, has made the 2008 presidential race a key topic in her honors class about satire.
Her students, for instance, have examined political cartoons involving the candidates as well as talk-show host Stephen Colbert’s brief dabbling in the presidential race.
“The goal is to get students to think analytically about the methods, forms, and function of satire as a form of political communication and rhetoric,” Ms. Caufield said.
Every four years, the University of New Hampshire offers a course devoted to studying the state’s traditional first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
The history course, being taught this semester, includes discussions of what presidential campaigns are doing right and wrong, their workings behind the scenes and how voters react to them, according to The New York Times. Students also quiz guest speakers....
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In Iowa, Rachel P. Caufield, an associate professor of politics and international relations at Drake University, has made the 2008 presidential race a key topic in her honors class about satire.
Her students, for instance, have examined political cartoons involving the candidates as well as talk-show host Stephen Colbert’s brief dabbling in the presidential race.
“The goal is to get students to think analytically about the methods, forms, and function of satire as a form of political communication and rhetoric,” Ms. Caufield said.
Every four years, the University of New Hampshire offers a course devoted to studying the state’s traditional first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
The history course, being taught this semester, includes discussions of what presidential campaigns are doing right and wrong, their workings behind the scenes and how voters react to them, according to The New York Times. Students also quiz guest speakers....