| | Political Science Concentration | | |
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| School | Athabasca University | | |
| Location | Athabasca, AB, Canada | | |
| School Type | University | | |
| School Size | Full-time Undergraduate: 7,800
Full-time Graduate: 1,003 | | |
| Degree | Bachelor | | |
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| Length | 3 Year(s) | | |
| Entry Grade (%)* | 60% | | |
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| Cost | | Provincial: | $6,670 | | National: | $7,940 |
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| Description | In today's world, forms of power, authority, and governance are changing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. Governance is no longer confined to the nation-state, but involves a range of institutions—public, private, and non-governmental—involved in the process of governing and steering a society at the international, national, and sub-national levels.
As a result of completing this program, students should be able to: distinguish the various sub-disciplines, major themes, and analytical techniques in political science; categorize interactions between the individual, the state and other institutions of governance, public affairs and public policy;anticipate human cultural and political variability both within Canada and the global community, with an attendant appreciation of others’ viewpoints and cultures, attitudes, values, and practices; recognize the nature and sources of power and authority; appraise the sources of societal conflict and how they can be resolved by political means; situate contemporary events in broader institutional, political and social contexts; compare the Canadian system of government to those in other countries; describe the nature of change in the global political community, and the complex character of processes such as globalization; think critically and analytically, reason logically and communicate effectively about politics; study, learn, conduct research and communicate effectively in an on-line environment; discuss major trends and issues of debate within the political science discipline; plan, conduct, interpret and communicate the results of original research using basic research methods. | | |
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