About the Department
This department offers majors in history, political science, and social science. Within the political science major are four optional concentrations: ethics and politics, international relations, American politics, and prelaw. Many courses in the department emphasize the reading of classic texts or the study of primary sources. All courses offered in the department are within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and designed to contribute to a Christian liberal arts education.
The department's three majors strive to:
- Develop intellectual curiosity
- Equip students with the abilities to write and speak well, think critically, and judge wisely
- Enable students to distinguish justice from injustice
- Teach students the legitimate purposes and necessary limits of political power
- Provide students historical perspective for making judgments in the present
- Instruct students in human possibilities and limits
- Prepare students for careers calling for clear cogent reasoning
- Familiarize students with other cultures and times
- Make available to students the knowledge that is needed by citizens and statesmen
- Prepare students to teach various social science disciplines
To graduate as department majors and minors, students must maintain at least a 2.0 grade-point average in major courses.
Students who want to earn up to 16 units in their major through the Azusa Oxford Semester or the American Studies Program in Washington, DC, may do so by arrangement with the Department of History and Political Science.
