Political Science

As a Political Science student, you can expand your interests and gain valuable experience through a wide range of opportunities on the Allegheny campus and beyond.

The Center for Political Participation (CPP) works to address issues that students care about — and gives them the tools to be politically active. The CPP plans and supports events encouraging political participation, such as:

• Town hall meetings
• Short courses
• Debate and election watch parties
• Local candidate forums
• Get-out-the-vote efforts

Students from any major can apply to be a CPP Student Fellow; this leadership group helps to plan and advance the center’s initiatives.

In this professional development program, Law and Policy, you can combine your academic goals with opportunities in international or domestic law and policy, including career education.

Allegheny’s affiliation with the Robert H. Jackson Center allows students to intern, conduct research, participate in enriching programming, and extend their professional network.

The center advances the legacy of Robert H. Jackson, who served as solicitor general, attorney general, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

Political Science students can pursue their passions in a wide range of student-led organizations, including:

• Andrew Goodman Foundation Student Ambassadors
• Allegheny Student Government
• College Democrats
• College Republicans
• Mock Trial
• Women of Color in Politics
• Amnesty International
• Model UN
• Pre-Law Club
• Allegheny College Socialists
• Student Alliance for Prison Reform
• Student Coalition for Labor
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Many Political Science majors participate in a cooperative program with Carnegie Mellon University in the area of Public Policy. Students spend three years taking courses at Allegheny and two years at CMU, resulting in a combined B.A./Master’s in less time than is usually required to earn both degrees.