The Department of Political Science offers a curriculum that helps students acquire an organized body of knowledge about government and to think analytically about public policy, law, and politics. The political science degree prepares graduates to enter careers in government, public service, public administration, public policy analysis, legislative advocacy, business, international relations, and teaching. In addition, many graduates continue their academic careers in law school or pursue graduate degrees in political science or public policy analysis.
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Department of Political Science
University CatalogA focus on the elements of sound physical reasoning as expressed through clear scientific writing. Students write detailed solutions to challenging problems, summaries of research articles, and reviews of important topics of physics.
Explores the development of the modern Congress, including 20th century reforms, partisanship, inter-branch relations, elections and campaign finance reform, incumbency and redistricting, and the committee system.
Explores issues involving the rise of ‘big tech’, social media, and politics. Topics include the use and misuse of social media in movements and campaigns, foreign election interference, and the spread of misinformation.
Examines historical processes of racialization, discriminatory practices, and democratic values, focusing on pathways of empowerment for marginalized communities to gain political power.
Examines policies that impact workers including professional, low wage, immigrant, LGBTQ, and women. Covers the role of corporate power, labor unions, and worker centers, as well as U.S. labor laws.
Covers major western political ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis upon central figures in the development of Democratic, Marxist, Socialist, and various other contemporary bodies of political theory.