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Program Description All students must apply to and be admitted into the Ph.D. program. Students entering with the B.A. degree obtain an M.A. after completing the matriculation exam in the second year. The department does not offer a terminal M.A. in political science except for the M.A. certificate program in global justice and security studies. This program is practitioner based and is intended for students seeking employment within the intelligence or defense communities. It does not lead toward admission into the Ph.D. program. The program embraces theoretical diversity, methodological pluralism, analytic rigor, and scholarly excellence. As a medium sized program, areas of faculty expertise cover all the traditional subfields of political science. Graduate seminars are fairly small, and allow for intensive interchange between faculty and students. We provide regular opportunities for close contact between faculty and students, including research symposia, guest speakers, collaborative research projects, and work on research grants. Students in political science can draw upon the skills and expertise of the faculty in the criminal justice program, and may engage in cross-disciplinary research through some of the preliminary examination fields. The intellectual environment is enhanced through the relationship the department maintains with the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service (speakers, programs, scholarships, etc.), the Division of Governmental Studies and Services (applied research, survey methodology, program evaluation, etc.), and our faculty on the regional campuses. Department of Political Science
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