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The Department of Political Science has attained national visibility for its faculty, scholarship, and academic programs. The Department has nearly 40 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, over 50 doctoral students, and over 1,000 undergraduate majors. In addition to course offerings in every subfield of political science, the Department teaches survey courses in American and state government to virtually all undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
Scholarly activity by the faculty include the publication of books and monographs with the country’s most notable presses and articles in the discipline’s most widely read journals. For the past two decades, the faculty has been ranked as one of the nation’s most productive in terms of the number of articles in major scholarly journals. The Department presently hosts the editorial office of the Presidential Studies Quarterly. Our Ph.D. program is currently ranked 22nd overall in the nation, eighth among public institutions, and 17th in the field of American Politics in the 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report rankings.
The Department offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Undergraduate and graduate course work is available in American politics, comparative politics, international relations, methodology, normative political theory, public administration, public law, and public policy. Most upper-division undergraduate courses are small to encourage development of communication and analytical skills. The graduate program emphasizes preparation for academic careers through research seminars, emphasis on graduate student publication, and professional development experiences.
The Department is one of 12 social science and humanities departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Faculty participate in college-level interdisciplinary programs, including Women’s Studies and International Studies.
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