We are pleased to announce a special three-week program that will take a small, select group of students to the sites of both national political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte in summer 2012. After a week of academic instruction and training in Tampa, students will be assigned to volunteer fieldwork with media and other convention-related organizations during the Republican National Convention. The day after the convention, students will fly to Charlotte to do the same kind of fieldwork during the Democratic National Convention. This will be an experience of a lifetime for a student interested in journalism or the field on communication.

This two-week course examines the role of national political conventions in the process of nominating and electing a party’s candidates for president and vice president of the United States. The course takes place on-site at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. This special academic seminar places students in volunteer fieldwork positions with the party, convention committee, host committee, media, and many other convention related organizations and events.

This two-week course examines the role of national political conventions in the process of nominating and electing a party’s candidates for president and vice president of the United States. The course takes place on-site at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. This special academic seminar places students in volunteer fieldwork positions with the party, convention committee, host committee, media, and many other convention related organizations and events.

Participants in the Presidential Inauguration seminar will be in Washington, D.C., when the city and the nation celebrate either the re-inauguration of the nation's 44th President of the United States or inauguration of the 45th. In 2009, more than 675 students from across the country participated this very popular seminar. Regardless of the winner in 2012, a presidential inauguration is always Washington, D.C., at its best.