Honors Program

The Honors Program of the Department of Politics is for students with a deep and abiding interest in how politics affects our world. The program enables students to develop their interests through a series of small seminars with top faculty in the Department.

Honors students have the opportunity to explore their special interests by working with a faculty member on a one-to-one basis in writing their honors thesis. Students in this program broaden their backgrounds and investigate approaches offered outside the program by taking a minimum of six courses outside the program on a pass/fail basis. In short, the program challenges students to achieve the highest standards of intellectual rigor while providing them with flexibility to develop innovative and creative approaches to understanding the most important political issues of our times.

Among other exciting and diverse careers, graduates of the program have clerked for Supreme Court Justices, become Rhodes Scholars, edited the Stanford Law Review, advised small businesses in Bolivia, taught about gender and reproductive rights at the University of Chicago, and taught about politics at the University of Virginia.