Bachelor of Arts in International Relations (Honors)

The Rochester Department of Political Science remains the smallest department in the nation regularly ranked in the top tier, with a faculty less than half the size of the average faculty in the other top-ranked departments.
Dedicated to the highest levels of research, teaching, and institution-building, the department continues to build on its illustrious past. The department strives to offer leadership in advancing the scientific study of politics. We have a very specific notion of the mix of activities necessary to that endeavor. These include:
Formal theory and the drive to generalize
Rigorous empirical testing through sophisticated, theory-relevant statistical and qualitative methods
Expertise about the real-world phenomena that motivate such theoretical and empirical analyses
Our strong emphasis on positive theory and generalization, and historical commitment to (and success in) speaking to the discipline of political science, helps us stand apart from departments at other universities. We are committed to maintaining a faculty that stands at the cutting edge of both positive political theory and statistical methodology. We are equally committed to the principle that these systematic approaches be used ultimately in the service of understanding the regularities of politics in the real world.
The honors program provides a capstone experience during a student's senior year. Students have an opportunity to conduct original social science research in a small collaborative setting. Original research means that students will propose an original hypothesis and evaluate it, as opposed to standard political science courses in which students' written assignments summarize existing arguments. Most theses contain a statistical analysis component, although this is not required. (For example, a thesis could be primarily qualitative or theoretical.)

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