Note(s):
*Languages include Arabic (ARA), American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese (CHI), French (FR), German (GER), Greek (GR), Latin (LAT), and Spanish (SPN).
Program Description
Students of political science study governments: how they evolve, why they exist, the forms and social functions they assume, why they change, and who controls them. To understand governments, students of political science also study politics: how people behave in their relationship to government, what they do to influence government, how government attempts to influence people’s behavior and beliefs about what it does. Students of politics also must appreciate how cultural, historical, and economic forces affect the evolution of governments and mass political behavior.
The Bachelor of Arts program in political science focuses on four areas of instruction:
a) American government, including legislative and executive institutions, political parties and interest groups, public administration, public opinion and elections, and state and urban government;
b) Public law, including constitutional law, criminal justice, civil liberties, and environmental law;
c) International relations and comparative politics, including American foreign policy, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Russian, African, and Asian politics; national security policy, terrorism, human rights, and developing political systems;
d) Political philosophy, political ideologies, the history of political thought, political theory, and political analysis; and quantitative methods of political research.
