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A Career-Oriented Approach to Structuring the Political Science Major

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2021

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Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 387 - 393
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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