Fields of Study

Graduate students in Political Science at Ohio State take:

• major field,
• a minor field, and
• a breadth requirement of one course in three of the following fields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Politics, and Political Theory.

The 4 main major fields are:

• American Politics
• Comparative Politics
• International Relations
• Political Theory

A distinguishing feature of the OSU graduate program is having 5 additional lively fields that represent important new directions in political science. They are generally taken as minor fields, though some can be taken as second majors:

• Political Psychology
• Political Methodology
• Formal Theory
• Political Economy
• Race, Ethnicity and Gender