We Need a Change in the Political Science Department

At AUC, the Political Science Department does not meet the standards of a respectable Political Science School like Harvard and Stanford; it is not able to offer its undergraduates the important tools and skills needed for them to be competitive in todays market as it does not offer enough interdisciplinary Economics courses, deals with Political Science as if it is History, and it is all about memorization to get good grades due to the classes crammed with students, load of courses, and the different backgrounds of Political Science instructors.

In order to solve these problems, we need the coming demands to be fully fulfilled:

Including more interdisciplinary Economics courses like microeconomics, econometrics, and statistical reasoning in the collateral requirements of the Political Science major and these courses would be imposed on seniors and old students and to be included on the current catalog for new students so that all enrolled POLS undergraduates would not graduate without taking these Economics courses.

A separation between the Political Science and History fields should be very obvious; POLS undergraduates should be able to look at the historical events analytically.

The department should reject memorization as the best way of getting high grades through reducing the number of students in POLS classes to be no more than 15, decreasing the load of the courses materials, and putting specific guidelines and rubrics for instructors and professors on their ways of teaching and evaluating students.