The Department of Political Science is a large and diverse community of scholars and students. Its faculty has achieved international recognition by publishing regularly in outlets of the highest quality, and by securing research and teaching grants from a variety of governmental, academic, and philanthropic sources. Its faculty has also won university-wide recognition for the quality of its instruction. Students in the Department engage in one of two undergraduate Programs, one in Political Science and the other in International Studies, or in one of three graduate Programs: the Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, the Master of Arts in International Studies, and the Master of Public Administration. Currently, there are twenty seven full time faculty members, and several adjunct faculty members, working with more than eight hundred undergraduate majors and nearly one hundred graduate students.
The research and teaching interests of the faculty represent virtually all of the major fields and sub-fields of Political Science. Undergraduate students can selectively focus on the fields of American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory and Public Administration/Public Policy. Students in the doctoral Program can choose to major or minor in American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Public Law and Public Administration/Public Policy, and can minor in the field of Political Methodology.
