Our American Politics program is broad-gauged, with wide coverage of substantive areas and sufficient depth to permit specialization in a variety of areas.
American Politics Courses
Graduate study in American Politics at Ohio State includes choice among seminars on the following substantive subjects:
- Executive and bureaucratic politics
- Intergovernmental relations
- Courts
- Legislative politics
- Parties and interest groups
- Political psychology
- Public Opinion
- Race, gender, and ethnicity
- Voting behavior
From time to time, our faculty have offered reading courses on more specialized topics (e.g., southern politics).
Minor/Major Programs
Majors in American Politics are expected to take, at a minimum, Quantitative Analysis I and II, Advanced Quantitative Analysis, Formal Theory I, and Experimental Methods.
Majors in American Politics may complement their work with minors in Political Methodology, Formal Theory, Political Psychology, Comparative Politics (e.g, mass political behavior), and International Relations (e.g., American foreign policy)