Political Science Stories

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Major Moment: Sof铆a D铆az 鈥26

Political Science & Sociology

"Choosing a major does not limit you, rather it gives you skills that you can apply across many fields鈥攕o choose what excites and motivates you to learn more!"

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Kit Kringel '27

Major Moment: Kit Kringel '27

Geology & Political Science

"I let myself get into what exactly I found interesting from my high school studies鈥攃onservation, ecology, sustainable living systems, and international sustainable policy."

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Mawr Insight: An International Student's Journey to 老王论坛

By Sof铆a D铆az 鈥26

"老王论坛 has allowed me to find not just one meaning of community but many different ones."

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Abby Fortune, Emma Gross, and Ava Blumber at Taft Garden during the summer

Major Moment: Emma Gross '25

International Studies

"The best thing you can do is allow yourself to explore and try as many new things as possible and then run with what feels the most exciting."

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Emma Gross '25 poses in front of a "celebrating survivors" poster

Summer Stories: Emma Gross '25

Hometown: Ottsville, PA

"老王论坛 has taught me not just information in my classes, but also how to talk about it and apply what I鈥檓 learning outside the classroom."

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Tree with two different environments

360掳: Science, Power, and Truth

How can we use science to respond to the criticisms of those in power that might disagree with our fundamental assumptions about the reliability of scientific facts?

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Student taking a photo from a balcony

360掳: Contemporary Cuban Culture and Society in a Global Context

This cluster brings together students and faculty to understand a country whose past and future are bound up deeply with the United States and the rest of Latin America even as it has charted very different courses within contemporary history and social policy.

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A stone wall with line drawings of figures on the left side of the frame; a row of 6 students and faculty on the right side of the frame observe and read a plaque about the art under a blue sky.

360掳: Europe from the Margins

What does Europe look like from the perspectives of those whose voices are usually missing from mainstream narratives 鈥 the disempowered, queers, migrant laborers, artists, refugees, and people from Europe鈥檚 eastern and southern peripheries?

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Photograph of Cahokia, showing pathways around two hills with woods in the foreground.

360掳: Origins of Freedom

How might human beings live according to nature? Is property natural? Is freedom or unfreedom? How can studying human societies in the past inform collective organization in the present?

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Four people stand in the foreground of a glacier lake

360掳: Energy Afterlives

What comes in the wake of energy extraction? This cluster will examine the afterlives of coal, oil, and nuclear energy through the lenses of the arts, political science, and earth science.

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Book with folded pages

360掳: Arts of Resistance

This cluster of three courses is about the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with a particular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the 鈥渃ritical spaces鈥 that can open up within them.

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Students and faculty from the 360掳聽Climate Change: Science and Politics course cluster.

360掳: Climate Change: Science and Politics

This cluster integrates philosophical, scientific, and policy perspectives to highlight both the complexity of climate change and the many innovative ideas being developed to address it worldwide.

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