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Political Science
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The UMass Political Science (PoliSci) department consists of an undergraduate and graduate program. There are currently 21 full-time professors, with various visiting professors/researchers at any given time. Its chapter of the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha, is the Delta Lambda chapter, and was established in 1963.
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[edit] Description
From the Dept. of Political Science website :
The Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst trains students to describe, analyze, and explain the political dynamics of today's increasingly interconnected world, in which politics and governance are multi-level phenomena operating simultaneously at the local, subnational, national, regional, and global levels. Undergraduate students gain knowledge and critical skills enabling them to be active and constructive participants in civic life as well as more capable professionals in vocations involving public affairs. Graduate students principally prepare for careers as professional professors of political scientists who will advance knowledge through research and enhance the prospects of effective democratic governance through education in and beyond the classroom.
Like the majority of the school, and indeed the entire state of Massachusetts, the Political Science department has a reputation for being overly liberal in its teachings. Indeed, there are few self-pronounced conservatives among the faculty, the most notable being Jeffrey Sedgwick. Whether not it deserves this reputation is up to the students.
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[edit] Faculty
- Amel Ahmed
- Roberto Alejandro-Rivera
- Sonia Alvarez
- John Brigham
- Brenda Bushouse
- Barbara Cruikshank
- Carlene J. Edie
- Eric S. Einhorn
- Jane E. Fountain
- Sheldon Goldman
- Peter M. Haas
- John A. Hird (Dept. Chair)
- Laura S. Jensen
- Raymond LaRaja
- Vincent Moscardelli
- Tatishe Nteta
- M.J. Peterson
- Dean E. Robinson
- Srirupa Roy
- Jillian Schwedler
- Jeffrey L. Sedgwick
- Stephen B. Watts
- Nicholas Xenos
[edit] Staff
- Department Office Manager, Stephen Marvell
- Financial Manager, Trish Bachand
- Graduate Program Manager, Donna Dove
- Undergraduate Program Manager, Barbara Ciesluk
For further information on each, including e-mail addresses and educational backgrounds, see the PoliSci Faculty webpage.
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