Political Science as Public Good

3 Credits.

What role does political science play in a time of significant government transformation? What role should it play? This class will combine a public engagement practicum with a deep dive into the history of political science as a discipline. Political science was designed at the outset with both empirical and normative goals in mind. What were these empirical and normative goals? How have they shaped the discipline today? Students should have taken courses in the department before and have some interest in using the tools of the discipline to understand our current condition.