Graduate Study in Political Science at Purdue offers specializations in traditional fields such as American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Public Policy.<br><br>Our department also possesses strengths in areas that cut across traditional fields, such as environmental politics and policy, human rights, human security and political violence, and politics related to group identity and conflict.<br><br>Graduate students and faculty at Purdue participate in many interdisciplinary research centers and collaborative groups on campus. Students receive rigorous training in a wide range of research methods in the department and through workshops, coursework, and speakers in the cross-college initiative Advanced Methods at Purdue (AMAP).