我们博士学位课程的目标是为学生做好在顶级学术机构进行研究和教学的准备。为了实现这一目标，我们设计了一个程序，该程序涵盖了多个实质性领域，但是在强调理论构建和实证分析两方面都得到了统一。此外，我们鼓励通过密切的师生指导进行学习。结果，我们的学生在研究型大学（如芝加哥大学和密歇根大学）以及人文学院（如Middlebury和Wellesley）均获得了终身制职位，取得了巨大的成功。凭借我们的排名优势，最近在PS：《政治科学与政治》中排名第一，使我们的系跻身该国前20名政治科学研究生课程。<br> <br>该课程
The goal of our PhD program is to prepare students to research and teach at top academic institutions. To achieve this goal, we have designed a program that covers a variety of substantive areas but is united in its emphasis on both theory-building and empirical analysis. In addition, we encourage learning by doing through close faculty-student mentoring. As a result, our students have had significant success in obtaining tenure-track positions both at research universities such as University of Chicago and University of Michigan and liberal arts colleges such as Middlebury and Wellesley. On the strength of our placements, a recent ranking in PS: Political Science and Politics places our department among the top 20 political science graduate programs in the country. <br><br>The requirements of the program are designed to provide opportunities to our students to develop and practice the skills necessary to become successful researchers. We offer a variety of substantive courses in three major fields - American government and politics, Comparative politics, and International relations - from which students discover and develop their own substantive interests. Through our methods training, students develop the sophisticated methodological tools they need to pursue their research puzzles and questions. Besides coursework, students present a paper at a poster session in spring of their second year, and write and present a scholarly paper in the departmental speaker series in the fall semester of their third year.