Small Classes and Accessible Professors

The Department of Politics offers programs leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy in politics. The faculty share a strong commitment to theoretical, historical, and institutional approaches to the study of government and politics.

In political theory, the department has strengths in the history of Western political thought, American political thought, Christian political thought, culture and politics, constitutionalism, and contemporary political thought. In American government and politics, the department offers in-depth perspectives on the American presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court and constitutional law, American political development and culture, political parties and elections, and intelligence policy and institutions. In the field of world politics, the department offers broad expertise in such areas as international security, comparative politics, American foreign policy, religion and international affairs, peace studies, national security and intelligence, anti-terrorism and radicalism, and Latin American Politics.