SENIOR SEMINAR

Catalog description

The senior seminar is the capstone course for all majors and designed to be the last course in the Politics sequence. The course has several objects: to present a topic and texts that comprehend and build upon the student’s previous coursework in the department; to hone the student’s skill in spoken argument and intellectual conversation; to develop the student’s skill in written argument, through a lengthy term paper; to test the student’s comprehension of seminal works through an oral examination.