Gary Copeland

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Phone: (205) 348-6350
Office: 430B Phifer

Email: copeland [at] ua.edu
Personal web page: www.tcf.ua.edu/COMMFAC/GARY

Research/Teaching/Creative Work: Dr. Copeland is primarily known for his research in political advertising and political communication. He has written in several areas such as gender roles, the family’s uses of technology, and the inventional process in rhetorical criticism.

Classes recently taught:

TCF 100 Introduction to Telecommunication and Film
TCF 112 Motion Picture History and Criticism

TCF 289 TCF Topics: Sci-Fi Films
MC 405 Mass Media Ethics
MC 607 Seminar in Epistemology and Theory Building

Select Publications and Creative Work:

Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age.

Manipulation of the American Voter: Modern Political Commercials.

Inside Political Campaigns: Theory and Practice, and Critical Questions.

 

 

Current faculty members:

Jennings Bryant
Jeremy Butler
Gary Copeland
Pam Doyle
William Evans
Joey Goodsell
Aaron Greer

Yong-Chan Kim
Loy Singleton
Glenda Williams
Shuhua Zhou

Adjunct Faculty:

Dwight Cammeron
Rick Dowling
Roger Duvall

Emeritus Faculty:

James Brown
George Katz
Dolf Zillmann