Foundations of Political Analysis

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Residential/On Campus, Online Courses for Virtual Option}  

• The department's relatively small scale provides excellent opportunities for close student-faculty interaction in both the residential and online programs of study. 
  
• Our Blacksburg campus offers students the full services of the university, including an extensive library, technology support, and the Graduate Life Center for residential students.
• Participants in online program complete their course work over the Internet through asynchronously conducted on-line graduate courses.
  

• Department faculty is drawn from outstanding universities around the United States and around the world, and the department has strong expertise in all major sub-fields of political science. 
  
• As active research scholars, members of the faculty regularly review research grants for major granting bodies in the U.S. and abroad, and serve as editors or on editorial boards of major peer-reviewed journals, including Administration & Society; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Critical Policy Studies; Congress and the Presidency; Fast Capitalism; International Political Sociology; the minnesota review; New Political Science; Peace Studies Journal; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Rhetoric & Public Affairs; and Telos.