POSC 489 - Senior Assessment

• Develop, or one hopes, further refine students’ writing skills in the context of the study of politics.
• Read primary and secondary sources in the student’s chosen research area.
• Review and be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals and foundation of the discipline of political science at the undergraduate level.
• Demonstrate an acceptable level of analytical and research skills.
• Evaluate, by way of the end-of-course questionnaire, the faculty of this department, its curriculum, and its program.
• Develop, in the process of the course, a greater understanding of the nature of the discipline of political science.
• Develop, in the process of the course, an appreciation of the diversity and complexity of political life from an historical and from a contemporary perspective.
• Differentiate between subjective values and opinions and objective facts.
• Learn to organize one’s thoughts and communicate those thoughts in a clear, written form.
• Become an all-round good person, eat all one’s vegetables, don’t be cruel to animals (unless they deserve it), and struggle against corporate fascism.