Marketable Skills

After completing the Political Science degree program at UT Tyler, students can achieve the following:

Soft Skills:

• Address challenging problems and issues through: creative thinking, inquiry, innovation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information including numerical data or observable facts.
• Respond in an ethical manner by connecting data, behavior, choices, consequences to ethical theories.
• Communicate ideas effective through written, oral, and visual delivery modes.
• Work effectively in teams.
• Advance the human condition through learned international cultural competence, knowledge of civil responsibility, and a foundational knowledge of human behavior.

Hard Skills:

• Expertise in the political institutions of both Texas and the United States.
• Participate in community organizations, electoral politics, social and political movements, and elected or appointed positions in government.
• Engage in critical thinking, expository and persuasive writing, oral communication, cirtical reading, research and organization skill necessary for graduate and law school. Use knowledge of the law and analyze and argue court cases.
• Work in teams to compete in Model UN competitions and Moot court competitions.
• Formulating solutions to current global problems though the Model UN program. Explain current issues such as human rights, international law, humanitarian intervention, the environment, conflict resolution, and the role of science and technology in maintaining international peace.

Unique Features of Program (what separates UT Tyler's program from others):

• Career supports throughout the entire degree program.
• Internships at the local, state and national level.
• Pre-Law Program/Minor
• Pre-Law Society
• Model United Nations Program

After completing the Political Science degree program at UT Tyler, the student can achieve the following:

Soft Skills:

• Address challenging problems and issues through: creative thinking, inquiry, innovation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information including numberical data or observable facts.
• Respond in an ethical manner by connecting data, behavior, choices, consequences to ethical theories.
• Communicate ideas effective through written, oral, and visual delivery modes.
• Work effectively in teams.
• Advance the human condition through learned international cultural competence, knowledge of civil responsibility, and a foundational knowledge of human behavior.

Hard Skills:

• Matriculation to doctoral programs in political science.
• Engage in teaching responsibilities at the junior college level.
• Present their own original research at regional and national conferences.
• Formulate solutions to current global problems through research.

Unique Features of Program (what separates UT Tyler's program from others):

• Career supports throughout the entire degree program.