BA Seminar: American Politics and American Political Thought 4219-ZS020
BA Semiar is intimately connected and is a continuation of the BA
Proiminar offered in the fall semester. The two courses together
allow the students to obtain necessary skills to develop and
complete a BA paper. Here in the BA Semiar will execute that
research and produce a written BA research from the topic and
research frame they produced in their BA Prosemiar.
The goal of this class is to guide the student through the
sucessful compleation of their proposed research and the
production of a written paper where that resesarch is effectively
presented to an academic audience. Students will be constantly
reminded of the core principles of the philosophy of social science
that underlay all research methods and to methods that are
currently being used by students of political science, while they
produce their final written paper on their chosen research topic.
The instructor has interests in the following topics: American
Political History (especially topics dealing with the American
Founding, the Civil War, the Progressive Period and the New
Deal, and various Presidents and statesmen); American political
thought and the influence and sources of Western political
philosophy upon American political and constitutional thought;
U.S. Constitutional Law and how it shapes and defines American
politics; the nature, character, and processes of American political
institutions (Congress, Presidency, the Federal Departments and
Agencies, the Courts and the States).
Type of course
B.Sc. seminars
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
1. Formulating a Clear Topic (that is approved by the Instructor).
[SKILL AND COMPETENCES]
2. Generating and producing a working bibliography on the
chosen Topic [SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE].
3. Formulating a clear and workable research question and
hypothesis. [SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]
4. Generate a working outline of the BA Paper.[SKILLS]
5. Apply the various methods that are common in the study of
political science.[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]
6. Compare and contrast different methods and decide the most
effective for the type of project that is being desired.
[KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCES, AND SKILLS]
7. Executing a research project.[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]
8. Producing an effective written research paper that clearly
addresses and offers clear analysis on the paper’s main claim.
[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]
9. Learning to present and defend your research finding to an
audience or academic panal. [SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:
1. Submission of various drafts of the paper for review and
comment moving the student to be able to submit a final draft.
2. Submission of a final draft for corrections before producing a
final version to offically submit.
3. Submission of a final version of the research paper for BA
Exam
I think this is a pass/fail assessment. Pass is to satasfactory
complete all these step and submit a final approved version of the
paper/thesis to the online platform to start the BA exam process.
Additional information
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