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Political Science
Title: 4120 Politics and the Media (Online)
Campus: MU
Credit: 3 credit hours (no graduate credit)
Lessons: 12 lessons, 12 submitted
Exams: 3 exams
Grading: Faculty Evaluated
Prerequisites: POL SC 1100 and junior standing
Description: The role and importance of mass media in the political process, primarily the U.S. Constitutional protections of the press, politics of media control, political news and advertising, effects of information on election campaigns, political institutions, and policy making.

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Textbook Information
Item 1
Author: Graber
 Title: Mass Media & American Politics
 ISBN: 1-56802-917-9
 Edition: 7th '06
 New price: $56.95
Item 2
Author: Patterson
 Title: Out of Order
 ISBN: 0-679-75510-1
 Edition: '94 Vintage
 New price: $9.45
Text total: $66.40

Tuition:
Undergraduate tuition: $245.60/credit ($736.80)
Graduate tuition: $298.70/credit ($896.10)

Total Cost:
Undergraduate tuition: $736.80 (Graduate tuition: $896.10)
Information Technology fee: $36.60
Administrative fee: $25.00
Texts, etc.: $66.40

Total cost: $864.80 ($1024.10 Graduate)
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