SPA’s Department of Government offers courses of study at the doctoral, graduate and undergraduate levels. The masters program in political science includes tracks in American, comparative, and applied politics.
Faculty in the Department of Government are leading scholars in the fields of American and comparative politics, campaign management, lobbying, and other areas of political science.
Through SPA’s research institutes—the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the Women & Politics Institute—faculty scholarship is shared with the AU and Washington communities, and across the nation.




