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Department of Politics and International Relations

Department of Politics and International Relations

The Department of Politics and International Relations     

This major bridges the humanities and social sciences.

Why Politics?

Are you interested in campaigns and elections? Diplomacy and international affairs? Critical issues like health, immigration, the environment, and race relations? If so, you should pursue a major in politics.

Politics is the study of the way in which people make collective decisions affecting life under government. From a Christian perspective, politics is part of God's provision for Creation, a means of reconciling human inclinations toward both self-interest and sociability. In short, if you are curious about the world, and you believe, as we do, that government has a constructive role to play in making for a better one, then the study of politics is for you.

Politics Student Perspectives from MC:Department of Politics on Vimeo.

Our Politics alumni say, if given a second chance to choose an undergraduate major, they would choose politics again.

Department News

Christina McIntyre, a 2016 graduate of the Politics and International Relations Department, with further majors in Sustainability Studies and Community and Urban Development, will use her 2016-17 Fulbright research award to Canada to study for an MA in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her MA thesis, which took shape as part of Christina's senior honors project at Messiah, will focus on urban housing policy as a means of poverty de-concentration. Christina is from Street, Maryland.

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