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Title: Election Polling & Public Opin
Course Section Number: PSC-211-01
Department: Political Science
Description: For months - if not years - before elections, commercial pollsters, campaign strategists, and academic survey researchers constantly query population samples in order to get a handle on what the American public thinks about issues, candidates, and campaign developments. This course takes a peek behind the curtain to examine how public opinion polls are conducted, the challenges pollsters face in their efforts to accurately measure the attitudes and beliefs of large populations, best practices for media reporting on poll results, and the relationship between public opinion polling and democracy. Students will follow 2024 election polling in real time, conduct an exit poll, and promote polling literacy within the campus and local communities.
Credits: 1.00
Start Date: August 21, 2024
End Date: December 14, 2024
Meeting Information:
08/22/2024-12/12/2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 201
Faculty: Gelbman, Shamira

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