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Students majoring in political science will demonstrate mastery in the following areas:

1. Students demonstrate evidence-based argumentation. In writing students make assertions, judgments and claims using evidence. Students provide proof to support written judgments and claims; writing is not merely reflective or rhetorically persuasive. Evidence takes the form of reference to a body of research findings; reference to a legal case or set of cases; or reference to the pattern or logic of a foundational text.
2. Students demonstrate the ability to apply concepts from a theoretical text or argument to a tangible political dilemma, proposal or event. Student achievement is the ability to apply an abstract political concept to political decisions in the past, present or future. Examples include 鈥減arty identification,鈥� 鈥渟earch and seizure,鈥� and 鈥減olitical ideology.鈥�
3. Students demonstrate an in-depth, critical understanding of American political institutions and processes.
4. Students demonstrate an in-depth, critical understanding of foundational ancient and modern Western texts on the formation of the state and the political community.
5. Students demonstrate an in-depth, critical understanding of at least one non-Western political text, perspective, or system.