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SPA undergraduate program experience
We offer our students extensive individual attention and a dynamic and rigorous curriculum. We heavily promote our academic side, offering in-depth learning from accomplished faculty, and we also encourage our students to undertake internships and study abroad.
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Program Goals
Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of key theories, concepts, and issues surrounding the study of political institutions and processes from the four foci of the major: Communications, Law, Economics, and Government.
- Demonstrate critical thinking, written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrate competence in analyzing, interpreting and evaluating. within the realm of public policy.
- Apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the major to the practice of actual politics and policy-making.