The uniqueness of its approach lay in the requirements of all students within the program to complete a significant amount of course work in the area of political philosophy. In acquainting all graduate students with normative political theory, the program furthered the University's traditional goal of providing an extensive liberal arts education in line with its Jesuit mission . The departments objective is to offer students a highly personalized education within a distinctive graduate program. The Department of Political Science offers graduate courses in a number of fields and subfields. Most classes are conducted in a seminar form with fewer than 10 students per class.
Specific attention is given to the individual needs of the students.
All graduate classes are conducted by full-time members of the department.