Degrees type: Bachelor
Main Campus
The History, Politics, and Global Affairs (HPGA) program at Mount Aloysius College utilizes hands-on learning and multidisciplinary knowledge to prepare students to engage in the complexities of local and global challenges both past and present.
The HPGA program allows students to develop their own sub-categorical interests within the major to select courses based on their own interests and professional goals. Categories include thematic courses, global-based courses, and American-based courses.
Students at Mount Aloysius College in the HPGA program benefit from a unique and engaging degree path, faculty committed to unmatched support, and small, interactive classroom environments.
Program Highlights
Career Opportunities for History, Politics, and Global Affairs graduates include:
American Historical Association
- Knowledge Base in Political Science – Students will demonstrate depth of fundamental knowledge and comprehension of the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and empirical findings of political science and related fields.
- Describe key concepts, terms, principles, and overarching themes in political science.
- Develop a working knowledge of the field of political science.
- Describe applications of political science within the field of study as well as how they apply to other disciplines.
- Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking – Students will demonstrate skills and concepts about basic political processes, institutions, and concepts as they operate in different national and international contexts. Evaluate arguments in an impartial fashion.\
- Use scientific reasoning to interpret political science phenomena.
- Demonstrate political science information literacy.
- Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem-solving.
- Interpret, design, and conduct basic political science research.
- Incorporate political and sociocultural factors in scientific inquiry.
- Ethical and Social Responsibility in a Diverse World – Students will demonstrate proficiency with formal regulations that govern professional ethics in political science and demonstrate they have adopted the values that will contribute to positive outcomes in personal and professional settings and in building a society responsive to multicultural and global concerns.
- Apply ethical standards to evaluate political science and its practices.
- Build and enhance interpersonal relationships and understand how relationships and connections occur in national and international contexts.
- Communication – Students will demonstrate the ability to construct a congruent argument, present information orally and/or in writing, engage in discussion of political science concepts, explain the ideas of others, and express their own ideas with clarity, as well as produce a research study or other political science project.
- Make effective written and/or oral arguments about significant political processes, events, and concepts using appropriate evidence, with sensitivity to opposing perspectives.
- Demonstrate the ability to outline and defend a vision of politics in areas such as justice, democracy, community, or freedom by means of writing and/or speaking for a specific and/or general audience.
- Interact effectively with others.
- Professional Development – Students will be able to apply political science-specific content and skills to succeed in post-baccalaureate employment, graduate school, professional school, and/or professional organizations.
- Apply political science content and skills to career goals.
- Exhibit self-efficacy and self-regulation.
- Refine project-management skills.
- Enhance teamwork capacity.
- Develop meaningful professional direction for life after graduation.
- Mount Aloysius College History and Political Science major Alex Minnick (St. Marys, PA) presented “Personal History and Continuous Learning” at the 47th Annual 8th Air Force Historical Society reunion in Savannah, Georgia in October 2021.
- Mount Aloysius College adjunct political science professor, Michael Ryan, published “War Weary: Why U.S. Troops are Often Overseas” in The National Interest, a premier foreign affairs publication. Mr. Ryan served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy.
Student Voices & Success Stories
MacKenzie Horne, ‘15, ‘17 Duquesne University, is now an archaeologist with GAI Consultants.
Dillon Bender, ‘16, is a Rose-Hulman Sports Information Graduate Assistant at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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