Undergraduate Program

B.A. in Government

The faculty in the Department of Government reflects the intellectual diversity of political science today. Consisting of more than 50 scholars, the faculty conducts graduate teaching and research across the fields of American and comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and public and comparative law. Some faculty members are specialists in formal theory, research methods, and political behavior. Supported by the department's Public Policy Institute, there is a large concentration in racial and ethnic politics, and another in gender politics. Many faculty work at the intersections of politics with economics, history, law, philosophy, and sociology. Faculty in the large comparative politics section cover most areas and countries of the world, working closely with the University's Title VI centers for Latin America, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, and South Asia, and with other centers for Australian and New Zealand, European, Mexican, Mexican American, Asian American, and African and African American studies.