Goals:

• To develop in students a substantive body of knowledge about the history and evolution of the discipline including its various approaches and methods.
• To nurture in students specialized and thorough knowledge in American Politics, Area Studies, International Affairs or Legal Studies.
• To help students acquire the capacity to gather and analyze primary and secondary political data, to critique extant studies, to construct creative research proposals and to craft original research.
• To encourage students to participate in service learning activities?local, national and international?that permit access to early job placements and an appreciation for the practice of citizenship.