Political science classes focus on fundamental questions of governance: How should state and society be organized? How do the values of civil society and economy influence political thinking? Who should exercise political power and who should not? What constitutes justice?

The department of Political Science offers the following degree programs:

• Political Science BA
• Political Science Minor

The Department of Political Science offers the Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and the Master of Arts in Public Affairs. Faculty members and students engage in empirical research and ethical critique of current events and competing explanations of those events with regard to government, politics, and society. They take into account politically relevant conceptual elements and practices embedded in or struggling against the intellectual foundations and elaborate edifices of diverse political arrangements and causes. Faculty members profess certain acumen in the discipline within which they teach and do research, and thus have accumulated more accurate and sophisticated explanations and discoveries into the human condition, particularly as they relate to living socially and making decisions collectively.