Political Science is the study of how people organize themselves to achieve their common interests. It includes analysis of governments, public policies, political systems and political behavior. In a world of increasing interdependence, knowledge is crucial to sustainable economies, secure communities, and healthy and happy citizens.

The Political Science major teaches students the techniques of the trade of political science. Since the methods that political scientists use in research are often quite technical, the program is designed to give students practical experience applying research methods to questions and problems they will encounter in jobs as political researchers, policy analysts, or managers. 

International Politics is an interdisciplinary major focused on how power operates within and between states in the international arena. The program combines economics, history, and political science to examine topics such as human rights, ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic and political development and globalization, the environment, foreign and economic policy making, and national security. Students have the option to concentrate in one of three areas. 

Social Data Analytics is designed to prepare students for careers that use “big data” or “social data” to tackle social and political problems. Big data or social data is information about what people do, think, and feel gathered from cell phones, social media and objects fitted with sensors that capture moment to moment changes among people and in the physical world.