The Department of Political Science offers students the opportunity to learn the critical thinking, analytical, and communicative skills needed for understanding how government and politics function in contemporary and historical contexts.
"Global Health, Children's Rights and Pakistan"
- Political Science Feature Stories
Poverty and Political VoiceCity neighborhood serves as laboratory for political science students
Kara Schultz, '08Student examines Ellis Island as a detention center for "alien radicals"
Tony DeRosa, '09Triple major shares good fortune in the classroom
Kevin Farrelly, '09Governor's Fellows Program sets senior's political career into motion
- Political Science News
- Political analyst Larry Sabato to give 2010 Peple Lecture
- UR lecture series to focus on American studies, literature and art
- Applications to participate in Student Research Symposium due Feb. 26
- Submissions Now Being Accepted for Core Essay Contest; Deadline is March 22
- School of Arts & Sciences welcomes 16 new tenured or tenure-track faculty and three directors
- Political Science Events
- February 11The Tocqueville Spring Lecture Series: "Transnational Melville" - 4:30 p.m.
- February 18Tocqueville Lecture Series: What Marco Polo Forgot: Asian Art Reconfigures the Global" - 4:30 p.m.
