Prospective Students: Student Resources
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Political Science Department (Pond Laboratory) |
All students who are admitted to the graduate program receive a research assistantship or a fellowship. Fellowships, provided through the department and the College of the Liberal Arts, offer a release from assistantship responsibilities. Current political science graduate students are recipients of the Bruce Miller and Dean LaVigne Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Political Science, Bruce Miller and Dean LaVigne Graduate Fellowship in Political Science, Florence and Angelo Paterno Graduate Fellowship in the Liberal Arts, University Graduate Fellowship, and the Bunton Waller Graduate Scholar award. Additional fellowships for minority students are available through the American Political Science Association and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). All assistantships and fellowships include a monthly stipend, full tuition scholarship, summer tuition waiver, and 80 percent co-payment toward the University’s health insurance policy.
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Political Science Department (Pond Laboratory) |
The department also facilitates graduate education in other ways. Support is available for travel to professional conferences; to attend special summer programs for the study of subjects crucial to the student’s program of study, such as foreign languages or advanced statistics; and to conduct dissertation research, including international and domestic travel and archival research. A visiting speakers series brings leading scholars to campus throughout the year. All students have office space, as well as access to the department’s computer lab. The lab provides network access to a complete array of software (word processing, statistics, graphics) as well as to theUniversity’s archive of political data sets. Awards are given annually for outstanding performance in the graduate program, for the best master’s essay, and for teaching excellence.