<p>could someone please comment on their own experiences or evaluate what they have heard about the philosophy and poli sci departments? Thanks.</p>
<p>I will state my interest in this as well, thereby bumping up the thread and maybe heightening the chances of a response.</p>
<p>Me three--I'd be interested in majors or minors in both of those subjects.</p>
<p>If you are interested in political philosophy in the Western classics sense (I presume that is what a double major would be getting at) there is a lot going on at Chicago. Political Science, the Committee on Social Thought (at the undergraduate level dubbed Fundamentals: Issues and Texts), History, and Classics all bring serious academic weight to bear in this interdisciplinary area and are top ranked internationally. Normally, these would be the majors through which one would pursue such an informal concentration, but the proscribed program in Philosophy could also work. At any rate, you would be drawing on courses from across the university no matter what degree you ended up with. It is mainly about considering which prerequisites do you want to fulfill (e.g. would you prefer to take courses in logic, a dead language, a modern language, and so on).</p>