The political science major is helping the Northern Virginia Capital Defender Office build defenses for clients facing the death penalty.
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.
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The double major in philosophy and political science is returning to Hungary, where he interned last summer, to continue his work on migration and refugee issues.