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Curriculum Theory and the Undergraduate Political Science Major: Toward a Contingency Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2021

E. Fletcher McClellan*
Affiliation:
Elizabethtown College

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Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major
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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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