政治学文学士

政治学系主要提供政治学和国际研究专业，政治学与数学以及公共政策与分析的联合专业，以及政治学的副专业。不允许同时在政治学和国际研究中学习双专业，也不允许在国际研究中学习政治专业，而辅修政治学。对于政治学和国际研究专业，教室课程必须至少修11门课程和36个小时，其中7门必须在埃默里（或牛津）学院修读。S / U不能选修专业或辅修课程。
Political science aims to describe and explain the processes by which community values are translated into public choices. Political scientists use what they know about politics and political behavior to develop normative positions regarding desirable features of political systems.<br><br>The discipline covers a wide range of topic areas from the study of democratic and authoritarian institutions, the international system, local governance and policy, violent conflict, as well as the political behavior of individuals. Political science uses a diverse set of tools for descriptive and causal inference, which rely on diverse sources of evidence, including public opinion surveys, historical archives, social and lab experiments, social media, government documents, personal interviews, as well as ancient texts.