COOL CLASSES: “Women in War and Peace”
This political science course explores power and security through the lens of gender.
COOL CLASSES: “Refugees and Forced Migrants”
This political science course integrates diverse disciplinary approaches—legal, political, sociological and anthropological—to explore the causes of migration, the dynamics of assimilation and incorporation of migrants in the U.S., and the process and impacts of deportation and (re)incorporation in Mexico and Central America.
COOL CLASSES: “Public Policy Analysis”
This political science course helps students develop a deeper understand of how public policy is made.
What They Learned: Talia Scott ’19
The political science major studied the prosecutorial reform movement as a way of exploring the various reasons why politicians and political candidates take up reform-minded stances that deviate from their party’s standard stances.
What They Learned: Sophie Hess ’19
The political science major studied the ways in which educational policies that group students by performance can lead to a type of intra-district segregation along racial and socioeconomic lines.