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Advanced Writing and Research Seminar

IWP 643
Four credits

This seminar is intended to introduce students to the art of research and writing. Its objective is to familiarize students with information: its acquisition, analysis, and communication. Students will be required to write short book reviews and a research paper, which will demonstrate the students' ability to research and analyze primary sources. Students may be required to take this seminar under certain conditions: their native language is not English, their writing is not deemed satisfactory by IWP professors, or the Admissions Committee requires it as a condition of admission.

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Principal Professor


   Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Professor of History, The Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies {read more}

FEATURED FACULTY

Walter Jajko

Professor of Defense Studies; Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (retired)

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Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions and Policy

The goal of this course is to prepare the student to recognize and analyze the use of foreign disinformation and propaganda to affect U.S. perceptions and policy formation, and to employ countermeasures against them.

Principal Professor

  J. Michael Waller

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