<p>Are the students at Brandeis interested in political and international affairs, i mean, do they have strong views on issues, support one party or the other, like reading the Economist…(can’t help stereotyping).</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Brandies has very good pre-med and science departments, but (no offence) I wouldn’t like to spend 4 years in the midst of geeks (whom i respect very much).</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>there are PLENTY of posts from opinionated premeds on this forum... try reading some of deispremed's or starcartch's entries.</p>
<p>brandesi has a republican club :P haha. if you jsut look at the list of clubs they have you'll notice that there are quite a few devoted to politics....</p>
<p>There are tons of politically minded people. Econ is the #1 major (followed by Bio, I believe...or maybe Psych) and there are a ton of politically-oriented clubs.</p>
<p>One of the main reasons I chose Brandeis is because of the crazy politicalness. I'm going to be an international relations major so that's a BIG deal to me. It's also pretty left leaning. There are Republican clubs about, but 9 times out of 10, any given student will be relatively liberal.</p>
<p>Is there an International Relations major at Brandeis. It doesn't say on its website. Is International and Global Studies the same as IR?</p>
<p>yes, IGS is essentially the same thing as IR. (Abreviations at Brandeis are always different. i.e. TF is Teaching Fellow instead of TA, CA is community adviser instead of Residential Adviser)</p>
<p>Now if Brandeis only spent some of that time and effort making the school better rather than simply coming up with new names for things...</p>