If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:

1. Analyze, compare, and contrast the wide variety of government types throughout the world.
2. Compare and contrast non-Western governments.
3. Critically analyze all aspects of democracies, and to explain how and why differences develop even within the world of democracies.
4. Recognize and display an ability to thoroughly discuss similar factors that impact governments of the world.
5. Demonstrate written and oral communication skills used in the discipline.
6. Prepare a research paper that critically analyzes important differences across three or more nation-states.
7. Think analytically in the discipline.