About the Department

The department is distinguished by the breadth and quality of its faculty, students, and curriculum. It is also the largest department in the College of Liberal Arts, home to 2000 majors and 115 Ph.D. students.

Nationally recognized for its quality, the Department has 50 professors, a dozen joint and emeritus professors, 10 lecturers, and over 50 teaching assistants.  The Department also houses the Policy Agendas Project and the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute research units.

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.

Graduates go on to careers in virtually every profession and have become leaders in politics and diplomacy, education, law, business, medicine, the military, the arts, and in a great many governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.