政治学解决了人类社会面临的一些基本问题。有关世界和平，旨在实现经济稳定和增长的政府政策，环境质量的管理，对政治竞争的控制，使用法律影响社会和政治变革的可能性以及美国贫富差距的问题国内外都在当代政治学家的研究议程中。该专业的总体目的是系统地解决这些问题和其他问题，同时提出广泛的理论问题，以帮助学生将当今的政治辩论与那些使政治争论不休的辩论联系起来。理论传承至今已有2000多年。我们的教育理念的前提是，我们可以为生产性职业提供的最佳专业准备是广泛的，理论性的，并且仅与当前的就业市场间接相关。我们的专业毕业于各
Political science addresses some of the fundamental problems facing human society. Questions concerning world peace, government policies aimed at achieving economic stability and growth, the management of environmental quality, control over political competition, the possibility of using law to affect social and political change, and the gap between the rich and poor in the United States and abroad are all on the research agenda of contemporary political scientists. The general purpose of the major is to address these and other issues systematically, and, simultaneously, to raise the broad theoretical questions that can help students relate today's political debates to those debates about politics that have kept a theoretical tradition alive for over 2,000 years. The premise of our educational philosophy is that the best professional preparation for productive careers that we can provide is one that is broad, theoretical, and only indirectly related to the current job market. Our majors graduate into a wide range of career options.