Politics
Lewiston, USA
BA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Politics studies power, authority, and values across individual, local, national, and international levels. Faculty include Professors Ásgeirsdóttir, Engel, and Richter; Associate Professors Aslan, Baughman (chair), and Pérez-Armendáriz; Assistant Professors Britt, Gilson, and Lim; and Visiting Assistant Professors Bačovský, Price, and Williams. Courses combine qualitative and quantitative methods, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, public policy, and examine race, class, gender, identity, social movements, conflict, and diplomacy.
Career Outcomes: Graduates pursue roles in policy analysis, diplomacy, public administration, campaign management, journalism, nonprofit leadership, research, legal professions, and consulting. They gain skills in research, data analysis, writing, negotiation, and civic engagement.
Professors Ásgeirsdóttir, Engel, and Richter; Associate Professors Aslan, Baughman (chair), and Pérez-Armendáriz; Assistant Professors Britt, Gilson and Lim; Visiting Assistant Professors Bačovský, Price, and Williams
Politics is the study of the processes that define, produce, and distribute power, authority, and values. Political studies inherently subvert the naturalness and inevitability of what is, by looking historically and cross-culturally at what has been in other times or places, and what might be. Politics is a heterogeneous scholarly field that utilizes a range of research methods and a variety of diverse forms of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative. The discipline analyzes political processes at individual, local, national, and international levels. Students consider topics such as states, political institutions, social movements, political ideologies, identities, cooperation, conflict, war, and diplomacy. Courses engage multiple disciplinary approaches and cultural perspectives, stressing the importance of the diversity of political experience, including a global range of politics that address the roles of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender in political life.
