Undergraduate
Student Learning Outcomes
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (B.A.)
Students completing the Political Science B.A. program will achieve the following:
- Know
- how to distinguish among theories of politics and analyze current political situations in theoretical terms;
- how to identify the various types of actors in international relations and relate these in describing current global issues; and
- how to locate appropriate sources by searching electronic and traditional data bases.
- Understand
- basic structural components of state and national government (legislative, executive, and judicial) and explain their relationship to each other and to subnational units and
- the roles of significant actors, including elites, masses and institutions in the governmental processes.
- Be able to
- formulate hypotheses, construct research designs, and apply appropriate analytical skills (both qualitative and quantitative) to the study of political science;
- use and cite appropriate sources correctly; and
- write and speak with sufficient clarity to convey their attitudes, knowledge, and skills.