In recent years this has included a study women and politics in former Soviet Republics, and the politics of health promotion and the beginning and end of the 20 th century. Student collaborators have traveled to research libraries and attended scholarly meetings. The Political Science Department provides pre-law advising for all students at Linfield regardless of their major.
Students are also able to design individual study projects with instructors.
In these courses students are taught how to understand and evaluate different legal systems. However, our graduates who have gone on to law school report that this approach prepares them well for law school in that they have a solid basis upon which to undertake the more rigorous study of law. Our internship requirement allows students to work in non-academic environments, for example, in law firms and government agencies. We are a small department but we have been extremely successful in having our students admitted to and attend first-rate law and graduate schools.