UNLV Presidential Debate Lecture Series Episode 5

As part of the UNLV Presidential Debate Lecture Series Dr. Kathryn Olson, professor and chair of the Communication Department in the College of Letters & Science at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, discussed how presidential debates might illustrate candidate accountability and performances of democratic leadership. Olson uses rhetorical criticism and argumentation to examine American texts, issues, movements, images, and debates with public consequences. UNLV TV recorded the lecture series and the videos will be housed on the UNLV Libraries Digital Scholarship institutional repository.