Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honors)

The department graduates approximately 75 undergraduate concentrators annually, making it one of the larger social science concentrations at Brown. We offer smaller freshman, sophomore, and senior seminars, as well as larger introductory and upper level lecture classes. We have a robust Honors Program in which students work closely with faculty advisors to write a senior thesis, a yearlong original research project, and faculty often work in collaborative research partnerships with concentrators. Many of our students secure politics and policy based internships during their four years at Brown. After graduation, political science concentrators follow a wide range of paths including law school and graduate school in political science or public policy, active political engagement at the local, state, national, or international level, and management consulting.

At Brown, the Political Science concentration revolves around how people participate in political life within a framework of social, economic, and cultural institutions. What particularly moves us at Brown are the big ques-
tions about political life both at home and around the world. We study people individually, but also as they interact in their communities, towns, cities, states, regions, and nations. Our faculty bring their cutting edge research into the classroom in our courses which include Politics of the Illicit Global Economy, City Politics, Constitutional Law, Prosperity, Ethics and Public Policy, Slavery and Freedom, U.S. Gender Politics, Polarized Politics, The American Presidency, Democracy and Inequality in American Cities, Latin American Politics, Ancients and Moderns, Political Psychology in International Relations, Politics in India, and Nuclear Weapons and International Politics.

International applicants, like all applicants to Brown, are expected to complete secondary school. Brown's first-year students will have completed 12 to 13 years of primary and secondary schooling. Similar to applications from students within the United States, we evaluate applications from students outside the United States with their context and opportunities in mind.
English language proficiency must be achieved before you are admitted. Brown does not offer courses in English as a Second Language for its undergraduates and does not offer provisional acceptances to students who are deficient in English.
A minimum score of 105 on the TOEFL internet-based exam, a minimum score of 8.0 on the IELTS
minimum score of 130 on the Duolingo