Welcome Welcome to the on-line home of the Department of Political Science at Florida State University. The purpose of this site is to offer information to our students and colleagues throughout the world about who we are and what we do. At the undergraduate level, the Department has several hundred students pursuing their Bachelors degrees in Political Science. Students choose from courses focusing on American Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Political Theory and Public Administration to satisfy the requirements of this major. The Department actively participates in the University s Honors Program and offers small courses in the Social Sciences Residential Program in Public and International Affairs located in Broward Hall.
Internships provide our students with direct experience in the political and policy process.
We also offer a broad range of courses that satisfy the University s liberal studies and multicultural course requirements. The Department offers graduate programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees. Instruction is offered in the fields of American Government, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Public Policy, Methods of Political Analysis and Formal Theory. Ours is a research-oriented program structured to maximize students opportunities to not only collaborate on faculty research projects, but also to develop their own research program. Very early in their graduate education, students participate in faculty research projects, often as co-authors.