Learning Goals & Objectives
Student Learning Goal 1
International Relations Majors will demonstrate a basic knowledge of the components and dynamics of the international system.
Students will:
- Objective A: Demonstrate an understanding of the issues, functions, and theories of the international system;
- Objective B: Demonstrate an understanding of the role of history in international Affairs;
- Objective C: Demonstrate an understanding of the role of geography in international affairs;
- Objective D: Demonstrate an understanding of the similarities and differences in political systems and economies;
- Objective E: Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the United States in the international system.
Student Learning Goal 2
International Relations majors will develop competence in the skills that are appropriate to the discipline and that are necessary for success.
Students will:
- Objective A: Demonstrate competence in the techniques of scholarly research in the field of International Relations;
- Objective B: Demonstrate competence in the techniques of scholarly writing in the field of International Relations;
- Objective C: Demonstrate competence at the ACTFL intermediate-high level in the use of a modern foreign language.
Student Learning Goal 3
International Relations Majors will demonstrate the attainment of values that refer not to what they learn in terms of measurable content but in terms of their view of the world in which they live and the people that populate it.
Students will:
- Objective A: Demonstrate a sense of global understanding;
- Objective B: Demonstrate an appreciation of religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity in the human family.
