Political Science - BA

As a student in Political Science, you’ll benefit from a balanced degree program emphasizing the integration of theory and practice rather than any single approach or methodology. Our program encourages you to define and analyze fundamental political concepts such as equality, freedom, justice, and civic obligation from a range of perspectives. Coursework in political science provides you the opportunity to understand and compare major political institutions, public policies, and the relationships among them as they operate in different national and international contexts. During your studies, you’ll learn to explain the factors influencing individual-level political attitudes and behavior, and use and evaluate statistical and other types of evidence in analyses and arguments.

• Professional and business services

• Government (federal, state, local)

• American Politics

• International Relations

• Data Science

• Private sector business

• Government agencies at the city, state, and federal levels.

• Non-profit/public interest organizations

• Our Department has one of the largest Environmental Politics faculty in the country

• Our program sends more students annually to education abroad programs than almost any of the other schools in the UC system

• Environmental Studies

• History

• Communication

• Sociology

• Black Studies

• Chicano Studies

• Climate change

• Media and politics

• Globalization

• Public policy

• Identity and race

• Political thought

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