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Liberal Education and Political Science

Today undergraduate education is less than the sum of its parts: the major is too prominent, its liberal education portion is too incoherent, and electives are too often disregarded. Such conclusions are supported by a number of major reports of the last few years, the best of which by far is the Association of American Colleges report, "Integrity in the College Curriculum."' Given the distribution requirements characteristic of most general education curricula, advising becomes a substitute for curricular coherence, but that too often is left to overburdened assistant professors or, worse, to non-faculty administrators. The result is imbalance: too many history courses for history majors, too many literature courses for literature majors, and, yes, too many political science courses for political science majors. "An interest in the undergraduate curriculum should not be based merely on the desire to secure for political science departments its share of the enrollment pie."2 Political science and political scientists have a special contribution to make to the undergraduate curriculum, but first we must understand what in the last ten years has increasingly come to be recognized. The liberal arts portion-general education requirements-is as important a part of the baccalaureate curriculum as the major. As important! Students will change jobs often during their work years, which rarely Will have anything to do with the topic of a particular major. We must educate students for lives they will be leading, not the lives we would like them to lead as future political scientists. Each part of the undergraduate curriculum-the major, liberal education, and electiveshas a significant role to play in an undergraduate education.