Is there any admitted or current CWRU students major in Political Science (just college of arts is fine!)?
I want to heard any information that I cannot get in their website from you guys! like how good its political science program is or how many people are usually in one classroom for core requirement courses in major.
Check this out:
http://money-law.blogspot.com/2007/02/political-science-rankings.html
Political Science Rankings:
One type of ranking is “Alumni Ranking”
Alumni-based rankings
There are a couple of rankings based on the work of the alumni of a program. McCormick & Rice (1982; 2001) looked at whose graduates publish in five “leading journals” (a journal was leading if it was published by the national or one of the regional political science associations). Michigan, UC Berkeley, Chicago, Rochester and Indiana are the top 5. In a later study, Rice, McCormick & Bergmann (2002) looked at whose graduates publish books that had been reviewed at the flagship journal APSR. Harvard, UC Berkeley, Yale, Chicago and Princeton top that list (when weighed by size of the graduating class, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Case Western Reserve and UC Berkeley are at the top). Masuoka and Grofman look at which departments have produced the highest number of highly-cited faculty (determined by being in top 400 of all faculty). The top 5 are Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, Michigan, and Chicago. They also look at placement records (additional tables and figures) as such – the top 5 in 1991-2000 placements were Harvard, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Princeton, and Chicago.
Some CWRU economics professors have political science background. My son is getting an economics minor, and was able to work with a political scientist/economist on evaluating crime data versus legalized marijuana stats and won $3000 grant for undergraduate research at CWRU for the summer. The social sciences are well represented in summer research programs at CWRU. The economics, political science and other humanities are strong. Even SAGES writing classes are strong, and students have gone to Africa associated with their SAGES projects. SAGES allows students who are undeclared to have an advisor who helps them. Professor Mariana Carrera has both economics and political science training: (although the econ department is located in the business college).
From the Department head:
CWRU’s Dept of Political Science is a small department of outstanding faculty. As a small department in a large research university, we are able to provide distinct advantages to political science students. Similar to elite liberal arts colleges, we offer small classes taught by regular faculty. No class is larger than 40 students (usually our introductory courses), and our average class size is fewer than 20. Our upper-division courses, which are available to all undergraduate students, are taught as seminars. Because our department has few graduate students, our faculty are able to concentrate on undergraduate teaching as well as on their research. All political science majors have faculty members as their academic advisors, who help shape their program of study, and every political science major completes a Senior Capstone Project under the direction of one of our faculty.
Because we are an integral part of a major research university, our faculty are highly accomplished and active scholars who bring their research into their classrooms. In the past eight years, four of our faculty have been Fulbright Scholars (in Canada, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom). Thanks to a generous alumni gift, the Department is able to offer undergraduate research assistantships to students who work with faculty mentors to support and learn from faculty research. Our department has links with our colleagues in the School of Law and the Weatherhead School of Management to support our shared interests.
Because we are an urban research university, our students find opportunities to participate in politics, policy, and service not only within the University, but also in our surrounding institutions and in the wider community. Several of these opportunities can be found on our department webpage here. We are especially proud of our Wellman Hill Public Service Internship grants program that funds four or five students each summer to participate in unpaid, public service internships that financial limitations may have otherwise forced them to decline.
We offer extensive information on our departmental website at http://politicalscience.case.edu/; we also have a departmental newsletter that we could send to interested students. The political science major is one of the most popular majors in the College of Arts and Sciences. Our courses enroll no more than 40 students (in our three introductory courses) or than 20 (in our upper-division seminars). Students work one-on-one with a faculty member in POSC396 Senior Capstone. Only faculty teach our students; we have no graduate student instructors.