政治学学士学位

政治学位使学生能够以挑剔的眼光，分析的能力和对全世界人民关注的敏感性来应对大学毕业后的生活。我们的两个专业强调学习分析和批判性思维技能，并教会学生就自己的政治世界建立自己的论点。我们希望我们的课程和教职员工能够使我们的学生感到有些不安，养成对收到的智慧持怀疑态度的习惯。也许更重要的是，我们努力帮助学生发展自己的想法，为他们提供证据，并用文字和数字表达，以吸引和说服同龄人，其同事和同胞。
The Politics Department is home to more majors than any other Department in the College. On average since 2000, over 700 students each year have been concentrating in one of our two majors Government or Foreign Affairs for their College degree. A Politics degree enables students to approach life after college with a critical eye, an analytic edge and sensitivity to the concerns of people all over the world. Our two majors stress the acquisition of analytical and critical thinking skills, we teach students to construct arguments of their own about our political world. We hope our courses and our faculty unsettle our students a bit, creating a habit of skepticism about received wisdom. Perhaps more important, we strive to help our students develop their own ideas, support them with evidence, and put them into words and numbers that will engage and persuade their peers, their co-workers and their fellow citizens. Students who major in the Politics Department follow many different paths after they graduate. Most of our students join the labor force upon graduation. Many students work in government itself, in public service, journalism, or in other closely related fields. An increasingly large percentage of students go on to graduate work, in one of the academic disciplines, or in policy, law or other professional schools around the country.