Focus on the specific ways our current primary system affects campaign finance, media, regional strategies and how candidates build support of major groups and interests in the party. Thanks to all of you for an extremely enjoyable course. I will always treasure this experience and I hope to see you again in another of my courses. I hope that you continue to be engaged in our democracy. Every student in the course is required to spend January 14 to 21 in Manchester New Hampshire as a volunteer in one of the presidential campaigns.
Students are free to select any candidate they wish.
Any student who does not have a specific campaign to support will volunteer for the candidate closest to his or her political attitudes. The class will return to New Hampshire for the weekend of January 29, the final campaign push before the New Hampshire primary held on February 1. The course concludes on Friday, March 10, after the Connecticut presidential primary. This course follows a very unconventional format. Next, the readings, assignments and lectures will build on that experience and ask you to reflect on it.