Welcome to The Department of Government
The department is distinguished by the breadth and quality of its faculty, students, and curriculum. It is the largest department in the College of Liberal Arts and is home to 2200 majors and 115 Ph.D. students. Nationally recognized for its quality, the Department has fifty professors, a dozen joint and emeritus professors, ten lecturers, and more than fifty teaching assistants. The Department houses the Public Policy Institute research unit. Through some 200 courses each year, the Department offers undergraduate and graduate studies in an array of fields: American Political Institutions and Processes, Comparative Politics, Formal Theory, International Relations, Methodology, Political Theory, and Public Law. Its graduates go on to careers in virtually every profession and have become leaders in politics and diplomacy, education, law, business, medicine, the arts, and in a great many governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Current News
In Memoriam: Carl Leiden and Wallace Mendelson
June 17, 2009
NATO and Democracy in Central and East Europe
June 15, 2009
The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibrium
June 12, 2009
Department Garners Sixth Teaching Award This Year
June 9, 2009
The Chinese Worker After Socialism
June 8, 2009