The goal of the Politics department is to cultivate in students a critical ability to interpret political questions from a variety of perspectives. As measures of our success in meeting this goal, we expect students to:
- demonstrate knowledge of the interconnections of political institutions, movements, concepts, and events from multiple intersecting vantage points;
- identify important contested assumptions, ideas, and intellectual debates in politics scholarship;
- pose critical questions about power relations as they investigate key political questions in a globalizing world;
- conduct a focused academic inquiry that demonstrates a critical awareness of competing arguments in response to a key question, an ability to formulate a systematic path of analysis, and the capacity to generate creative findings based on original research.
You can find out about professors, Politics courses, and major requirements. In addition, we invite you to read about the evolution of the Politics major at Whitman College. There are also a number of politics links to help students with research.
Address: Department of Politics, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362Phone: (509) 527-5125
Fax: (509) 527-5026
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