Primary Faculty: Professors AMES (Andrew Mellon Professor), HURWITZ, KEEFE, LINDEN, PETERS (Maurice Falk Professor), ROCKMAN (University Professor), SBRAGIA (Director, West European Studies), SELIGSON (Daniel H. Wallace Professor), WALTERS (Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences), WHELAN, ZASLOFF; Associate Professors ANISE (Joint, Africana Studies), GOCHMAN, HANSEN, HARRIS, OWEN (Chair), SCHEUERMAN, TANG; Assistant Professors CETINYAN, HALPERIN, SMITHEY; Lecturer DONALDSON

Affiliated Faculty (Adjunct faculty and those with primary appointments in other areas): Professors BOBROW (Public and International Affairs), KEECH (Adjunct), MARKOFF (Sociology), PIERRE (Adjunct), REICH (Public and International Affairs), VOSS (Psychology), WILLIAMS (Public and International Affairs), YOUNG (Public and International Affairs); Assistant Professor HASTINGS (Public and International Affairs)

Emeritus Faculty: Professors CARROLL, OGUL, POSVAR; Associate Professor SCHULMAN

The Department of Political Science offers the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The minimal requirements for the degrees established by the Graduate Faculty of the University and by FAS Graduate Studies, as described elsewhere in the bulletin, should be read in conjunction with the specific departmental requirements for these degrees in the following sections.

The graduate program in Political Science incorporates four fields: American politics, comparative politics, world politics, and empirical and normative political theory. Students may combine work for the MA and PhD degrees with a program of regional specialization leading to a certificate in Latin American, Asian, West European, Russian, or Eastern European Studies. Students who wish to earn a certificate in one of the interdisciplinary area programs in conjunction with a master's program should see Interdisciplinary Programs in the next section of this bulletin. The Department of Political Science encourages students to undertake course work in related disciplines and schools, including the other social science departments and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Two specialized centers of interest to political scientists are located at the University of Pittsburgh: the University Center for International Studies and the University Center for Social and Urban Research. Additionally, the University's membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides the student with access to major sources of political data and opportunities for advanced training in the analysis of data.

Students must then pass a comprehensive examination, for MA purposes, covering one of the four general fields: world politics, American politics, comparative politics, or empirical and normative political theory (beyond the core course sequence).

Academic Advising, Language, and other Research Tool Requirements: First-year graduate students are advised by the Director of Graduate Studies. After a student completes one term of full-time graduate work, or its equivalent, he or she will establish an advisory committee consisting of a chair representing the field that the student plans to choose for the MA comprehensive/PhD qualifying examinations and one other faculty member. The advisory committees, in consultation with their respective students, will plan the second-year programs. After a student passes the PhD qualifying examinations, membership of the advisory committees will be adjusted, if necessary, to include a faculty member in the second field that the student plans to submit for the PhD comprehensive examinations.

The reconstituted advisory committee will design the program of course work, language, or other relevant requirements, and a tentative schedule that leads to the PhD comprehensive examinations. Students acquire basic methodological competence through the core-course sequence. Additional research tool requirements may be established by the students' advisory committees with reference to their specific programs. If a committee decides, for example, that courses of study in languages, advanced statistics, or other areas are required, it will also establish the measure of competence required. The record of these decisions is placed in each student's file. The requirements established by the committee must be met before students can undertake the PhD comprehensive examinations.

Subsequently, students will meet with the advisory committee or with the Chair when appropriate, for purposes of registration and additional planning and discussion until the PhD comprehensive examinations are passed and a dissertation committee is established for the overview.

Credit Requirement: 72 credit hours earned from any suitable combination of formal course work, independent study, research, teaching, or dissertation work as detailed elsewhere in this bulletin.

Supervised Teaching Experience: Supervised teaching experience is an integral part of the doctoral program. Normally, teaching experience is gained by conducting recitation sections of an introductory course or by assisting a faculty member in an undergraduate course.

Comprehensive Examination: Students take comprehensive examinations in two of the four general fields. (In exceptional cases the department may permit a student to submit a coherent program in the social sciences for examination in lieu of one of these fields.) These examinations are offered during the first week of the Fall and Spring Terms. Students are expected to demonstrate a professional level of mastery of the substantive and analytic questions in both fields selected for examination.

The PhD comprehensive examination consists of two stages. The first stage consists of two takehome examinations covering two questions in each field. The second stage, contingent upon successful completion of the first stage, consists of an oral examination covering both fields.

Dissertation Overview: Following successful completion of the comprehensive examination, the student files an application for admission to candidacy for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

At this stage the student presents a proposed topic for doctoral research and a research design for its execution to be reviewed by a faculty committee. The student should give careful thought early in graduate work to possible doctoral research topics and discuss them with faculty members so that he or she may proceed promptly to intensive research and writing of the dissertation.

The overview committee consists of a minimum of four Graduate Faculty members, including at least one faculty member from a department other than Political Science (see Doctoral Committee in the first section of this bulletin). The committee is composed by the faculty member who has agreed to serve as the chair of the student's overview committee. Once the committee has generally approved the topic, it continues to serve as the student's doctoral committee and to conduct the final oral examination.

Final Oral Examination: The final oral examination in defense of the doctoral dissertation is conducted by the doctoral committee.