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Department of History
and Political Science

THE SAINT ROSE DIFFERENCE
With a distinguished record of placing highly qualified graduates in professional careers and prestigious graduate and law schools, the Department of History and Political Science at Saint Rose invites you to join our gifted community of learners.

The Saint Rose program in history and political science offers an exciting, rigorous and intellectually challenging interdisciplinary curriculum. Learn from professors who are experts in their fields in an intimate environment that allows for faculty mentoring and a free exchange of ideas. With an emphasis on global and multicultural relations, the history and political science program offers many intellectual and practical opportunities:

• abundant, conveniently located, and highly prized internships that often lead to directly to satisfying, lifelong, professional careers;
• small classes that enable close personal contact between you and a talented, dedicated, professionally active faculty;
• teaching methods that stress skill development in critical thinking, writing, essay organization, and oral presentation;
• substantial training in the academic applications of computers and telecommunications technologies like the Internet

The history and political science program will prepare you for a surprising range of career possibilities that include secondary education, politics, government, journalism, law, advertising and public relations. But as importantly, this program will help you establish personally and professionally rewarding relationships that will last a lifetime.

As you browse through these pages, if you have any questions, please remember that you may contact Keith Haynes, the department chair directly.

Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
The College's Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
annually brings to campus prominent scholars from around the nation. Recent keynote speakers included:

James Donnelly
professor of history,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Ireland's Celtic Tiger Economy: As Good as Advertised?"

Professor James Donnelly, author
of The Great Irish PotatoFamine,talks with Professor Sean Farrell of The College of Saint Rose about this watershed event of the 19th century.

28.8K — (23:26)
56K — (23:26)

Alice Kessler-Harris
professor of history,
Rutgers University
"What's Fair? What Discriminates? Sex, Race
and the Meaning of Equal Opportunity in the 1960s"

Tiffany R.L. Patterson
assistant professor of history,
Binghamton University
"Zora Neale Hurston and
the Politics of Culture."

Gary Y. Okihiro
director of the Asian American Studies Programs at both Columbia and Cornell Universities
"A Fraught Relationship: Africans and Asians in America."

History/Political Science Talent Scholarships
History/Political Science Talent Scholarships are available for history and political science majors.

Deadline: In order to be eligible for the History/ Political Science Talent Scholarship all materials must be received by February 1.