Recruiting Career-minded Students in Political Science: Connecting Subfields to Careers

• In Event: Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major

Brief Overview

This paper demonstrates an approach to introducing students to the subfields of political science that highlights jobs related to specific course content and emphasizes the motivations, knowledge, and skills one would need to develop to pursue them.

Authors

• Brandon C. Waite, Ball State University

• Darren A. Wheeler, Ball State University