Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can now take a course this semester focusing on “Trumpaganda.”
Students in this class, which is offered through the journalism program, will analyze Trump’s “war on facts, press, and democracy,” according to the Daily Illini, the university’s independent student newspaper.
“As a candidate, Trump employed the most common propaganda device, name-calling, to define, degrade, discredit and destroy his primary opponents as well as the “fake” news media,” the course description says.
Associate professor in media Mira Sotirovic is teaching the class.
She told the publication that students will look at President Trump’s strategies for dealing with the press to look at how propaganda can exist in a democracy.
“Propaganda is effective only if it is concealed and camouflaged as something else, such as news, advertisements or PR releases, and it is critical to learn how to detect propaganda and recognize propagandistic features of any communication, including presidential,” Sotirovic told the paper.
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