The Department's specific instructional goals are to ensure that:
- Students can demonstrate the ability to conduct library research on political science topics using a variety of scholarly and current resources.
- Students can demonstrate the ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data.
- Students can effectively present arguments, both about research and political positions, orally and in writing.
- Students can demonstrate the ability to learn about politics and government from experience.
- Students can demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to think critically about the processes and institutions of American Government.
- Students can demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to think critically about the processes and institutions of governmental systems other than that of the United States and about international relations.
- Students can demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to think critically about the theoretical and legal underpinnings of political systems and processes.
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Last Updated:
May 27, 2009