BAU Students to Examine the US Presidential Election Process in the US

The "BAU Washington, D.C. Political Communication" program takes university students to the upcoming Presidential Election in the United States.

The US is preparing for the presidential election to be held in 2016. This election, in which the parties determine their candidates through internal primaries, will be the 58th presidential election in US history.

The race for the election has officially begun. The current president, Barack Obama, the first Black president in US history, cannot run in this election since he has been elected to the office twice. The candidates in the race, expected to be between the presidential nominees of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, will become official at the end of the conventions both parties will hold in late August and early September.

Ahead of the US presidential election day on 8 November 2016, each candidate has already begun working on communication strategies with their teams. All of this planning up to election day is designed using findings from the world's leading experts and research companies.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WILL DECODE THE STRATEGIES OF THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

So that they can learn and experience on site the political communication strategies of the world's most important presidential race, Bahçeşehir University is taking students from all universities to the US between 25 January and 16 May 2016 with the "BAU Washington, D.C. Political Communication" program.

In the program, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Haluk Gürgen of the BAU Faculty of Communication and Dr. Walid Phares of BAU International University Washington, D.C., young people will experience first-hand in Washington, D.C. all the elements that make up a political campaign, such as media relations in political communication, voter behavior and creative communication strategies.

"POLITICAL COMMUNICATION" CERTIFICATE FOR PARTICIPATING STUDENTS

Students who participate in and successfully complete the program, which is open to students of Faculties of Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Business Administration departments of Faculties of Administrative Sciences, Sociology and Psychology, will also receive a "Political Communication" certificate.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 21 DECEMBER 2015

The application deadline for the program, in which university students will decode the strategies of the US presidential election, is 21 December 2015.

For more information, please contact the BAU Abroad Office.