2.1 Recognize the value of evidence-based reasoning.
2.2 Understand the process of scientific inquiry.
2.3 Understand how theories and hypotheses are developed in political research.
2.4 Understand the roles that intuition and evidence perform in political science inquiry.
2.5 Recognize intended and unintended biases in research and their consequences for our understanding of politics.
2.6 Describe the role of normative theory in political science.