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The Government Department Mission Statement
It is our mission to help our students become more conscious of the many and complex ways in which political forces shape their lives. We seek to do this by teaching our students to understand the nature of the American political system, by providing an understanding of some other important political systems around the world and educating them to view politics in a global perspective and to understand the dynamics of international relations and the functioning of global institutions, by raising their awareness of the deep and fundamental questions raised for centuries by classical and contemporary political philosophers, and also to lay before them some of the answers these philosophers have proposed to such questions, and by developing in them an understanding of how critical analysis and the scientific method can be applied to understand the workings of government and politics.
These goals are rooted in our understanding that our students need to be able to think, write, and speak clearly and thereby ultimately become capable of pursuing a broad variety of career objectives. Our mission of imparting knowledge takes place within a broader context of teaching our students the intellectual skills that will prove important to them as ethical thinking people, as engaged citizens, and as working professionals.
Adopted by the Government Department faculty August 17, 2009.
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