This course explores through lectures and practical exercises, the main techniques, issues and problems involved in using propaganda and public relations as means of influence and persuasion. This course examines the history of propaganda and public relations; propaganda in times of crisis or war; the propaganda techniques used by different organization (powerful private corporations in the modern world) as well as state. The central analytical technique applied to these situations will be discourse theory on the basis that all public statements are a form of discourse.
