Politics - The New School

Politics from The New School is a Campus Bachelor Public Administration degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. To study politics is to study power: How does power position actors unequally? Who has it and who fights to get it? And how is power used and for what purposes? Students majoring in politics at Eugene Lang College study the relations and manifestations of power in many contexts, which range from the family to the transnational environment. The politics major prepares students for careers in many fields, including national and international public service, education, journalism, activism, law, and entrepreneurship. Above all, it prepares them for a lifetime of critical and constructive engagement with their communities and the world. Courses enable students to critically analyze power relations across political , social, and economic systems; ethnic groups; social classes; genders and sexualities; divisions of labor; citizenship; and species lines. They attend to the movements and struggles, historical and contemporary that shape power and define its possibilities. By exploring whether the exercise of power benefits a few or promotes the welfare of many and how struggles for power advance or obstruct the conditions for the possibility of a better world, the curriculum aims to help students become critical thinkers and passionate actors, to deepen democracy, and to promote global justice. The major in politics emphasizes the following themes: Civic engagement and political activism in the United States and elsewhere Law, power, and political institutions in comparative perspective Critical social, political, and democratic theory Globalization, inequality, and international affairs The politics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender States and markets in international development Critical perspectives on policy making and policy development View more details on The New School . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Public Administration courses.