American Government and Politics

A candidate who has completed his or her qualification should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

• Define and explain important aspects of the constitution, federalism, political institutions, political behavior, interest groups, party systems, and public policies.

Skills 

• Discuss the content of the Constitution.
• Demonstrate how the Constitution facilitates and constrains political behavior, how the constitution governs the interaction between the states and the federal government, and between the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary.

General competence

• Critically analyze and evaluate the complexity of the political world in United States, explain patterns of political behavior, and discuss political outcomes.
• Engage in a discussion of how policies are the result of individual goals, institutional rules and collective action.
• Reconstruct how decisions and actions in the past influence political actors and outcomes today.