Objectives

The Department of Government and Politics provides students with the intellectual background and analytical skills to evaluate the issues confronting civic leaders, government officials and government organizations in the United States and around the world.

Students learn how to:

  •  Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Demonstrate the ability to effectively analyze political science issues.
  • Examine specific conflicts concerning the “authoritative allocation of values (resources) “ that form the core of political science across the subfields of American Government, International Relations/Comparative Politics, Political Theory and Public Administration.
  • Identify the discipline’s primary informational resources for research.