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Learning Outcomes

The learning and curricular goals of the Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics Department reflect the online Departmental self-description. They encompass student learning outcomes consistent with the liberal arts mission in general and curricular goals specific to our discipline. Our goals are consistent with national disciplinary recommendations, and the range of goals in the assessment plans at other political science departments nationally.

Student Learning Outcomes for the Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics Major

  1. General academic skills as applied to the important political and socio-economic controversies that surround us
    • Read carefully
    • Research effectively
    • Speak competently
    • Think critically, and broadly without losing attention to specificity
    • Write persuasively
  2. Discipline specific learning
    • Knowledge of range of explanatory and normative theories in political science
    • Knowledge of the variety of political institutions and processes
    • Knowledge of the 3 sub-fields – public policy, public law, and American politics and/or ethics

Willamette University

Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics

  • Salem Campus

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    Smullin Hall 3rd Floor
    900 State Street
    Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.