Politics
The Politics Department encourages students to consider studying abroad for one semester or even for a full year. If, under a program approved in advance by the dean of the college, a concentrator in politics studies abroad for the equivalent of an academic year at Princeton, the department is willing to credit as departmentals as many as four courses in political science or related fields when they are taken at a foreign university. Normally the department is willing to substitute no more than one cognate and one departmental or two cognates for concentrators studying abroad for one semester.
In recent years, Politics majors have studied abroad through the following programs:
- Argentine Universities Program via IFSA-Butler, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- University of Melbourne, Australia
- University of Sydney via IFSA-Butler, Australia
- Alliance for Global Education, Beijing, China
- Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies, Prague, Czech Republic
- Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), Copenhagen, Denmark
- American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Goldsmiths, University of London via Arcadia University, England
- London School of Economics and Political Science, England
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, England
- University College London, England
- Worcester College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
- Center for University Programs Abroad, Paris, France
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France
- Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
- Brown in India, New Delhi, India
- University College Cork, Ireland
- Kyushu University, Japan
- Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program, St. Petersburg, Russia
- University of Edinburgh via IFSA-Butler, Scotland
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Consortium for Advanced Studies in Barcelona, Spain
- CIEE at Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain
- IES Abroad in Salamanca, Spain
- McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Alanya, Turkey
Professor Lynn White shared the following information about studying abroad as a politics major:
"If you decide to study abroad, you will optimize your education. If you plan a senior thesis about international relations or the politics of a foreign country, this is a splendid opportunity to gather materials, languages, insights. If your main interest is in the United States, you can learn a tremendous lot abroad, by comparing foreign democratic systems with ours or by going to a non-democratic country and perceiving the extent to which many power networks everywhere (including in democratic countries, including America) are very authoritative.
. . . Your education will be better and happier, if you realize that not quite all truth is located in New Jersey. Your Princeton friends will still be on campus when you return -- and I promise that they will later be green with envy unless they go for study abroad too. . . . Study abroad can be the best part of your education to become a citizen of the world. This experience has focused the academic and later careers of many alums, and it can do the same for you."
Additional information about studying abroad as a politics concentrator is available on the Politics Department website.