Impact of the Subject of Political Science on Students Awareness in Petra University: A Case of Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed at recognizing the impact of the subject of political science on students’ awareness at Petra University. There are a grip of questions raised to be answered, and a sample of the study, consisted of (131) students had been chosen. These students were registered at three sections on the commencement of the academic year 2012/2013. A questionnaire had been organized for the sake of collecting information. This questionnaire leaned on (30) items and distributed. Just 87 items were valid and analyzed. The degree of political awareness among students was high at an arithmetic mean of (3.70), added to differences with statistical significance at the degree of the impact of political awareness at students due to their view and the variable of sex, opposite to differences of the faculty variable and its grade average-GPA. In the shadow of the results, the researcher recommends for further more studies on the very subject to disseminate the subject of politics at all universities which do not have this subject in their curriculums.