SUMMIT

 

1. Identify, explain, and analyze global themes, processes and systems

2. Demonstrate knowledge and skills essential for global engagement

3. Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures, subcultures or group

4. Communicate effectively through writing and speaking, especially across cultural or linguistic differences

5. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate arguments

6. Articulate and appraise problems and solutions from multiple perspectives, critically considering diverse sources of information

7. Recognize, analyze, and employ effective teamwork

8. Identify and assess one’s own values, interests and abilities

9. Practice or interpret creative expression or probe fundamental questions of value and meaning

10. Interpret quantitative information or demonstrate the methods of inquiry appropriate for investigating the natural world

11. Analyze human behavior or social relations 

MAJOR


1. Understand the way political science works as a discipline: how it structures its research, about political issues, and how it works with and among contested explanations about politics

2. Be not only familiar but also competent in working with the major broad approaches used in the discipline, including behavioralism, critical theory, comparative analysis, and discourse analysis

3. Identify and explain the way political actors, ideas, and movements shape political life

4. Participate in some kind of activity related to politics, broadly defined.