Political Science

Analyze the Constitution, Congress, presidency, courts, and how American democracy actually works.

Apply statistical methods to polling data, election results, and political survey research.

Compare how governments, parties, and political systems work across different countries.

Study how nations interact through diplomacy, alliances, conflict, trade, and international organizations.

Read foundational thinkers — Plato, Locke, Marx, Rawls — on justice, freedom, and political authority.

Design surveys, analyze voting data, and use statistics to study political behavior.

Analyze Supreme Court cases that define free speech, due process, equal protection, and federal power.

Evaluate how government policies are designed, implemented, and whether they achieve their goals.

Study how politics and economics interact — trade policy, inequality, and government regulation.

Analyze how candidates run campaigns, raise money, and how voters make election choices.

Examine how global trade, finance, and development are shaped by political power.

Study how government agencies are organized, managed, and held accountable for implementing public policy.