Graduate Information

The Department of Political Science offers a graduate studies program leading to master of arts (M.A.), master of science (M.S.), and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. The program is designed to prepare students for teaching, research, and governmental or other public service and to enable them to understand and participate in public affairs.

Regular members of the department and occasional visiting faculty members offer advanced courses and seminars in most fields of political science. Joint faculty-student studies, interdepartmental research projects, and individual research are being conducted in areas including elections and voting behavior, international political economy, rational choice experimentation and modeling, race and ethnicity, economic and political development, political parties, theories of justice, political and technological change in East Asia, and environmental politics.