Political Science
The Political Science department at Big Bend Community College seeks to prepare students for engagement with the wider world through a variety of courses designed to teach practical skills such as solving problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources, teamwork, and communicating clearly and effectively. Students are brought face-to-face with a wide variety of issues from the global past and present and asked to think critically about them. Department instructors seek to use innovative teaching to pique students’ interest and present new ways of thinking in a classroom atmosphere that is both fun and challenging. All of Big Bend’s political science classes transfer to Washington State’s public universities, and many are Running Start approved (check with your school district).
- Communication: Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
- Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
- Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills.
- Define what American politics is, including concepts such as power, authority, and law and the concepts of reality and perception.
- Evaluate the role of the American government including concepts of security, anarchy, hierarchy, and group dynamics
- Discuss current issues addressed at each level of government including electoral, societal, and fiscal issues.
- Identify and discuss major problem areas facing the world in the next years as nations seek international order in the post-cold war world
- Discuss the historical development of global crises and the role culture plays in one’s understanding of those crises
- Political Scientist
- Political Science Teacher
- Educator
- Attorney
- Public Relations
- Labor Relations
- Corporate/Project Management
- Campaign Worker
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Information coming soon
Waites, Kimball ‘Webb’
Quitadamo, Jody