Principles of Political Science

Catalog description

The chief goals of this course are (1) to help students describe the disciplines most important lines of inquiry, (2) to develop student enthusiasm for political science approaches to understanding politics, and (3) to provide them with a shared vocabulary which may be built upon by the department's other courses. The course introduces students to different types of political interdependencies that are common across the subfields in political science through an examination of big questions that drive the discipline.