• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

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The purpose of the graduate program in Political Science is to train professional political scientists who intend to pursue careers in research, teaching, and public service. The department offers programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The programs are designed to enable students to acquire both methodological sophistication and substantive knowledge in a variety of fields.

The graduate program in Political Science encourages the study of a variety of substantive concerns, methodological approaches, and research skills. Among the department's special areas of strength are United States politics and political behavior (legislative politics, public opinion and voting, parties and interest groups, and judicial process); political and social theory; international relations and peace science; the politics of western and eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Asia; international conflict; international political economy; democratization; social movements; political culture; and gender and politics.

Penn State is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), an association of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. The CIC sponsors the Traveling Scholars program, which provides doctoral-level students with an opportunity to study at another CIC university. In addition to participating in CIC programs, the department sponsors attendance at the ICPSR Summer program at the University of Michigan.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Graduates will demonstrate command of contemporary relevant theories and debates in the discipline of Political Science and in their specific Political Science subfields of focus; Graduates will demonstrate mastery of relevant literatures and cumulative knowledge in the discipline of Political Science and in their specific Political Science subfields of focus; Graduates will demonstrate competence in the design and conduct of Political Science research; Graduates will devise and execute independent original scholarly research projects relevant to the discipline of Political Science and in their specific Political Science subfields of focus; Graduates will demonstrate competency in presenting their scholarly output in written and oral formats that meet standards and conventions in the discipline of Political Science and in their specific Political Science subfields of focus; Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of the professional norm, standards and ethics the discipline of Political Science.

所属院系

进入哪个院系学习？ College of the Liberal Arts

中国学生入学要求

为来自中国的学生设计 Other English language requirements: TOEFL is 550 for the paper-based test, 213 for the computer-based test.

课程信息

学制：全日制(30 学分)

学费：US$37,694.00 (¥ 239,805) /年

开学时间：预计在八月 2022

申请截止日期：

留学地点：Pennsylvania State University Park Campus201 Old Main,UNIVERSITY PARK,Pennsylvania,16802, United States