POLS 4070 - Strategic Decision-Making

• Students will be able to critically state, describe, and evaluate the fairness, efficiency, and mechanics of different strategic collective decision-making mechanisms in different situations.
• Students will be able to critically assess and describe the literature on strategic collective decision-making and communicate their interpretation and assessment in ways that enhance meaning.
• Students will be able to assess the perspectives of alternative ethical decision-making frameworks, evaluate their own ethical core beliefs, and place those within the context of the other ethical frameworks.
• Students will be able to assess and explain the underlying assumptions as well as the political and ethical context in which different decision-making mechanisms are applicable and state their own position/evaluation of these mechanisms.
• Students will be able to state the conclusions that one might draw from applying the collective decision-making mechanisms in different contexts logically and according to their relative importance.
• Students will be able to relate the various mechanisms to their own experiences as citizens and voters, assess and evaluate their own prior experiences, and apply the mechanisms to their future decision-making situations.
• Students will be able to assess the relevance of various decision-making mechanisms from the perspectives of political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, and business, and relate the mechanisms to information from their other classes.