Activities include field trips to legal institutions, guest speakers, and recruiting forums. The Young Republicans and Young Democrats Students interested in taking an active role in the political parties may be interested in joining either the Young Republicans or the Young Democrats, which are affiliated with the local county party committees. As with all academic departments at ESU, Political Science classes are taught by full-time professors. Depending upon the particular course, class size may vary from 15 students in most higher level courses to as many as 40 students for many survey courses. Each student is assigned a professor as an advisor who will help the student with class selection, internship and career planning.
Graduate students are available for peer tutoring.
The department strongly encourages majors to develop excellent writing, qualitative, quantitative, and statistical skills while pursuing their Political Science degrees.