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Dec 15, 2025
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University General Course Catalog 2020-2021 ARCHIVED CATALOG: LINKS AND CONTENT ARE OUT OF DATE. CHECK WITH YOUR ADVISOR.
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PSC 781 - Political Science as a Discipline (3 units)
Examination of conceptual foundations of political science.
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. explain the effects of progressivism on political science and the social sciences.
2. assess the how post World War II government funding structured disciplinary research agendas.
3. articulate how science was adapted to explain social and political questions.
4. analyze why theories of individual and institutional political behavior changed from institutional to post structural approaches in the post-World War II period.
5. evaluate the role of land grant universities and standardized testing in changing the character of political-social science graduate education.
6. analyze the growth of, and changes in the curriculum of, political science doctoral programs from 1880-present.
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