Earning Criteria

• Earners have demonstrated an understanding of typical work in political science, the kinds of questions addressed and methodologies used to address them
• Earners have explained the nature, importance and unavoidability of a faculty of judgment in political and administrative life - Guided discussion with peers
• Earners have explained the concept of prudence, or practical wisdom, and its relation to individual character and experience
• Earners have provided concrete examples of both good and poor judgment gleaned from practical case studies in politics - Research based assignment
• Earners have explained why prudence is essential not just to politicians but to public sector performance, and how it resists reduction to technique - Written assignment – case study of judgement in political life
• Earners have explained why judgment, though central to political life, is very difficult and, even when good, not inevitably crowned with success - Written assignment – the faculty of judgement in political life