The department periodically hosts Friday afternoon socials, where student and faculty discuss timely issues of politics and governance. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
Carlos Castresana, a prosecutor at the Spanish Supreme Court responsible for filing the original complaints in the cases of crimes against humanity perpetrated by Latin American dictators Augusto Pinochet and Rafael Videla, spent a semester on campus co-teaching two political science courses. Photo: Brad Larrison
The Political Science Department offers a program of study that provides students with an opportunity to explore politics and government from multiple vantage points—at the grassroots, the nation-state, and the global community—and from a variety of theoretical, conceptual, comparative, historical, and experiential perspectives.
This political science course is designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of the politics of school choice and the efficacy of recent American education reforms, like charter schools and school vouchers.
This political science course introduces analytical perspectives on international relations and explores the evolving structure of the state-based order—which originated with the peace of Westphalia in the 17th century—over the last four centuries.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.