Helps students develop an understanding of the basic values, institutions, political and legal processes and public policies of the American national government.

Offers courses in American government and politics, comparative government and international politics and political theory, and provides training in the theoretical, empirical, philosophical aspects of the discipline.

Offers undergraduate and graduate studies that includes American government and politics, international relations, comparative politics and political philosophy.

Interdisciplinary enterprise of problem solving in the public interest includes science and innovation, the environment, economic development, and governance of information technology.

Professional school of international affairs provides students with the skills to engage in strategic planning and analysis in an interdependent and multicultural world.