Students will also learn valuable skills in critical thought, oral and written communication, and quantitative reasoning the very skills most useful to employers in all fields, like law, business, and journalism, not just politics.

As an interdisciplinary program, all majors are required to complete five core courses: Introduction to American Politics or Introduction to Global Politics, one economics course, one history course, one geography course, and an advanced language course. Beyond the core courses, they will choose one topical concentration in development and political economy, diplomacy and global order, societies and beliefs or U.S. foreign policy and national security, and one regional specialization in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East.