<p>Anyone with experience in these departments? Are they strong? Very challenging?</p>
<p>Pol Sci at Cornell is called Government.</p>
<p>Each class is different.</p>
<p>Strong in what sense? Rankings/Importance of Research publications/academic (peer) respect in the doctoral world? Of course-Cornell is an ivy after all. Beyond a certain point, it doesn't matter for undergrads.</p>
<p>I can vouch for the excellence of the history professors. I've taken 4 classes and all of my professors have been extremely intelligent, extremely good at teaching and still VERY available to their students.
Haven't taken a government class yet.</p>
<p>I took a few history courses as a bio major. In general, learned a lot. Not very challenging.</p>