Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honours) Co-Op

Brock University

Politics affects everyone. It is through politics that the future of the world we inhabit is shaped. Aristotle called politics the master science because he recognized how wide and pervasive politics is. The interests of political scientists are diverse. They include conflict at city hall or in the courtroom the arguments and processes through which our national existence might be preserved the collapse of Communism and the struggle to establish new political arrangements in its place the role of pressure groups in shaping public policy electoral reform the control of civil servants the rule of law among nations the place of moral principle and national interest in the conduct of foreign policy or how far any citizen might have the right or duty to disobey an unjust law. Political Science offers us the opportunity to become freer human beings and citizens because, whatever the subject of our immediate inquiry, the focus is always upon the ideas, institutions and processes that shape our lives.