Meet Our Majors
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With the analytical, evaluative, and communication skills you learn in your politics courses, you will be in high demand for employers in our increasingly service-based, post-industrial economy.
Skills like these will give you a wide range of career options in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Read about our graduates:
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Andrew Kofi Appiah Oppong
- The politics faculty know your strengths and weaknesses—and while they may continually challenge you, they are always quick to remind you that your identity is not found in your grades, but in God.
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Selvi Bunce
- In studying political science at Calvin, I unexpectedly discovered how concrete and methodical the discipline is.
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Kathryn Mae Post
- Go beyond the classroom and take advantage of all the opportunities the politics program offers.
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Ryan Struyk
- Some of my most valuable learning at Calvin happened outside the classroom. Whether planning worship services at midnight in the chapel basement as a worship apprentice, or debating proposals for a new college program as a student senator, or interviewing President Le Roy for that hard-hitting front page story as the editor of Chimes, these formative leadership experiences across campus continue to make a difference in my life today.
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Kagenza Sakufi Rumongi
- During my studies at Calvin, I learned that God has a lot to say about political science and international relations.
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Abbie Vegter
- I learned more than just the subject of political science while at Calvin—I learned how to engage with challenging ideas and form my own opinions.
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Harm Venhuizen
- "Some of the most influential moments of my time at Calvin have been conversations after class with my professors."
Our grads have worked in:
Professional schools
- The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
- The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago
Graduate Programs
- Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
- The Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University
- The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
- Johns Hopkins University's Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pepperdine University
- The University of Chicago
- The University of Michigan
- The University of North Carolina
- Yale University
Government
- Federal Reserve Board
- Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- The Michigan legislature (as staff and as elected members)
- Peace Corps
- United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- U.S. Congress (as staff in House and Senate offices)
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- U.S. Social Security Administration
Non-Profit Work
- Association for a Just Society
- Campus Crusade for Christ
- Legal Aid of West Michigan
- International Justice Mission
- Institute for Global Engagement
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Sunshine Gospel Ministries in Chicago
- Teach for America
- World Vision
Our grads have attended law school at:
- Boston
- California-Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Duke
- Emory
- Georgetown
- Harvard
- Illinois
- Indiana-Bloomington
- Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Michigan State University
- Minnesota
- Notre Dame
- Pennsylvania
- Southern California
- Stanford
- Texas-Austin
- Vanderbilt
- Virginia
- Washington
- Yale
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