About Us
Our Mission
The University of
California, Irvine, and (UCI) ranks among the top research universities in the
nation. The UCI enrollment of 20,000 undergraduates and 3,600 graduate students
is large enough to provide an active university environment. Our mission: a
continued commitment to excellence and your achievement.
Political Science
Department
The Department of
Political Science is a
nationally-ranked, top-30 department. In
2001,
the Department was ranked 29th by U.S. News and World Report. Its faculty
members have achieved distinction in research and professional visibility. Three
members of the faculty (David Easton, Bernard Grofman, and Jack Peltason) are
fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other faculty members have
served as officers of the major professional associations, including the
American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, and
International Society of Political Psychology. The Department has attained a
reputation for producing the very best innovative and interdisciplinary
scholarship. Faculty are engaged in the study of such key questions as the
politics of advanced and democratizing societies, international cooperation and
peace, the politics of racial and ethnic minority groups, and the origins of
altruism and morality and their impact on world politics.
The
Department has a very innovative Ph.D program with strong
interdisciplinary emphases.
Graduate students can pursue concentrations in democracy studies, international
relations, political economy/public choice, political psychology, and race and
minority politics. Our Ph.D. program offers big payoffs to our graduate
students, in fact, because of the extended range of inquiry an interdisciplinary
program affords.