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Great Lakes Mock Trial Invitational 2013
October 26th and 27th
click here to go to tournament website
Lecture on "The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents: From Truman to Obama" by David Holmes
Thursday, October 3rd at 7pm
Pray Harrold 204
Courses
Fall 2013 Schedules: Undergraduate Graduate
Syllabi: Fall 2013
Multi-year Course Rotation: Undergraduate Graduate
Who We Are
Faculty: 16 (with 2 more to be hired for fall 2014)
Full-time lecturers: 3
Part-time lecturers: 17
Undergraduate majors (winter 2013)
- Political Science:196
- International Affairs: 77
- Public Law & Government: 39 (+ 29 pre-law undeclared)
- Public Administration: 18
- Public Safety Administration: 38
NASPAA-accredited Master of Public Administration program
Award-winning Mock Trial and Model United Nations teams
More than 2,000 alumni in 48 states and 18 foreign countries
Recent graduates:
- The Class of 2013 includes scholarship recipients attending law school at Michigan State, Ohio State, Toledo, William and Mary, and Wisconsin; M.A. programs in international affairs/area studies at Pittsburgh, NYU; and a position with UNWOMEN in Niger.
- The Class of 2012 included scholarship recipients attending law school at Michigan State and Virginia, a fellowship recipient doing Ph.D. work in North Carolina, and students enrolled in M.A. programs in international affairs at Pittsburgh and Sydney (Australia).
Department Head: Dr. Arnold Fleischmann
MPA Director: Dr. Gregory Plagens
MPA Advisor: Dr. Barbara Patrick
Senior Secretary: Doreen Mendelssohn
Department Secretary: Connie VanAtta
The Department of Political Science is part of the College of Arts & Sciences, 214 Pray-Harrold, 734.487.4344
