Bachelor of Arts in Political Science - American Politics

SUNY University at Albany

Get an Inside Look at Politics and Government Learn how governments, political organizations, individuals, and nations act to create and realize public values and goals. You’ll prepare for responsible and effective citizenship, political participation, and advanced academic or professional studies. You will also learn to understand and appreciate different political values, institutions, and processes that operate in local, national, and international systems. The political science bachelor's program allows you to focus on the subjects that interest you most, with upper-level concentrations available in American politics citizenship equality and inequality global politics law and institutions political theory political economy and development public law security and statecraft. Located less than one mile from the New York State Capitol, it’s easy to get a head start on a career in law or government as political science major at the widely respected Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy.

College of Arts and Sciences