COMM 254Media and Politics
Communication · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Mass media play a critical role in domestic and international politics, and are a central component of modern representative democracy. Review of major questions in the study of mass media and politics, in the U.S. and cross-nationally.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.