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Politics
About the Department
To study politics is to concern ourselves with public life and arguments about what might define a good or better public life. The subject of politics is therefore of intrinsic importance to a liberal education. The program in Politics at Earlham is designed to provide the members of the College community with a basis for a specialized understanding of the science and art of politics.
To further these purposes the Department offers courses that encourage the thoughtful consideration of diverse political problems, issues and discourses; that provide opportunities to examine political processes, institutions and behavior; and that encourage the development of a rational capacity to discover, describe and analyze empirical evidence of political phenomena.
The Politics Department is well pleased in the extraordinary accomplishments of its majors. In the past two decades eight Earlham students have been awarded prestigious Truman Scholarships; still others have achieved recognition through Marshall Fellowships. The Department provides curricular support for our highly successful Model United Nations Club that takes part in national and international Model UN events, in addition to sponsoring a conference for high school students.
Earlham undergraduates have held summer internships as diverse as working in the White House Press Office, assisting a local prosecuting attorney or serving on the staffs of members of Congress. Recent alumni include the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Ohio, a campaign manager and a legislative assistant to a member of Congress, clerks to federal judges, and a prominent actor of stage and screen.
According to HEDS, Earlham is ranked 23rd (in the 98th percentile) among 1,469 institutions of higher learning in the U.S. in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D.s in political science and public administration. Of those receiving Ph.D.s in the social sciences in general, Earlham ranks 29th (also in the 98th percentile).
Recent graduates have pursued graduate study or law school
at American, Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, Ohio State, Princeton,
Temple, and New York universities, and the universities of Chicago, Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as study at some of the world's most prestigious
graduate schools including the London School of Economics and Political
Science, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Oxford University, the
University of Wales at Aberystwyth, the University of Warwick and St. Andrews
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