The department encourages applications from women and minorities and there are a number of university and departmental fellowships available specifically for such applications. In recent years a preponderance of new Ph.D. students have been women. Further information is available on our Financial Aid Page . The department's general policy is to offer all graduate students the opportunity to teach at least one course of their own before graduation. Students are eligible for instructorships once they have passed their written and oral preliminary exams.
Most students teach more than one class before they leave the program.
In addition, the department requires each student to take the Teaching Political Science sequence of the Political Science as a Profession class. For more information about living in the Twin Cities, good sources to start from are City Net's Minnesota Page , the University of Minnesota photo tour , and the Star-Tribune's property rental ads .