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SAGES
Departmental Seminars in Political Science
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As part of their general education requirements, students are required to
complete a SAGES departmental seminar. Although there is no rule that says
the departmental seminar must be taken in a field in which the student is
majoring, most students do so.
Ideally, departmental seminars should be completed after other SAGES
courses but before the Senior Project/SAGES Capstone. So most students
should take them in the junior year. Therefore, if you are a junior and
have not registered for a departmental seminar, you should be thinking
about that.
As with other SAGES seminars, the departmental seminar should emphasize
discussion, be limited to 17 students, and emphasize writing. A
departmental seminar in particular should emphasize disciplinary writing –
some aspect of written communication that is common within that particular
major. The goals of SAGES include some instruction in oral presentation,
and the capstone senior project (POSC 396) must include an oral
presentation. We therefore have urged faculty who teach departmental
seminars to include some form of oral presentation in those classes as
well.
Because our department tends to have between 30 and 40 majors per year, we
want to offer choices, and we do not want the courses that are used as
departmental seminars to be limited to juniors, we try to offer two
departmental seminars each semester.
The departmental seminars for Fall of 2009 are:
POSC 349, Political Science Research Methods, Professor McMann, Tues/Thurs
1:15
POSC 378, International Relations Theory, Professor Lavelle, Tues/Thurs
4:30
Neither has filled, so both are open to registration by any student.
In order to ensure that students who need a departmental seminar can get
into one, we normally use a permitting system. For the first two weeks of
registration, the instructor has to issue a permit to get into the course.
After that, we open it up. We are already past this point for Fall of
course, so the courses are open. We will go through the permit process for
the Spring departmental seminars, however. At present, we expect that
those courses will be:
POSC 358, Political Strategy, Professor Buchler
POSC 385, Bureaucratic Politics in the U.S., Professor White
Please plan your schedules accordingly!
Joe White
May 22, 2009
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