政治科学

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The mission of the 政治科学 部门 is to foster critical, reflective, informed, and empowered participants and citizens. 系介绍学生 to fundamental theoretic approaches, methods of study, and content about how people 政府的行为是在政治背景下进行的.

部门目标

• Goal I: Create and foster critical thinking participants.
• Goal II: Create and foster an atmosphere of participation.
• Goal III: Support the liberal arts and career focus of 靠谱电子游艺平台 through a range 课程和活动.
• Goal IV: Effectively prepare 学生 to continue their academic work in graduate programs in law, political science, public policy, public administration, and related 字段.
• Goal V: Continue to offer both a major and a minor.
• Goal VI: Continue to support programs in Urban Studies, Community Leadership, International Studies, Women’s Studies and AQ General Education.
• Goal VII: Continue to offer the necessary courses in support of those who plan to teach in the K-12 education system and specifically those pursuing Secondary Education Certification for a Social Studies Major with a 辅修政治学.
• Goal VIII:  Continue to provide quality advising to all the above.

 
学生学习成果:

1. Students will understand and analyze theoretic and philosophical perspectives of politics;
2. Students will develop the vocabulary and background information about the institutions and dynamics of the political world to understand and critically interrogate important political events, developments and conversations in both domestic and international 球体.
3. Students will be able to critically analyze elements, distribution and implications 的权力;
4. Students will be able to formulate discipline-appropriate research questions, plan original research, and carry out primary and secondary research using a variety of academic, scholarly, popular and professional resources.
5. Students will understand and employ major themes, problems, tools of analysis and vocabularies of the primary sub字段 of political science: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory
6. Students will be able to understand various political systems at different levels of analysis - local, national and international - so that non-specialists can understand their role and responsibility as citizens of this country and the world.