hello welcome to the Department of
Political Science and public
administration here at JSU I'm the department
head Tim Barnett and I'd like to show
you a few things today we're standing
here in my office and I have here to one
side some informational pieces that if
we were actually doing Preview Day in
the standard way I'd walk you through
all the particulars like for example the
nature of the classes that we offer the
divisions that we do in terms of
focusing our studies whether it's on
American politics global studies public
administration or if they're in
methodology and I would show you the
kinds of special events that we do as
well also I'd talk to you about the
great great students that we have in our
department and we're very proud of them
but what I'm gonna do at the moment is
I'm going to walk you down the hall and
show you a little bit about the
department come with me
hi again well is a political science a
special discipline I sure think so and
so did Aristotle he called it the master
art long ago and even nowadays it's more
so because political science has to do
with so many things that touch our lives
indeed there's probably no field that
you could study where there are so many
pathways that you could pursue so I'm
going to show you a few things that you
could do with a political science degree
well for one this would be very exciting
you could go to work for the executive
branch maybe in the White House maybe in
the State Department there are hundreds
of thousands of attractive and
well-paying jobs in the federal
administration also there's the US
Congress plus all of its specialized
committees in which there is tremendous
demand for expertise we have the federal
judiciary system and our pre-law tract here
helps prepare people to pursue career
opportunities there plus we've got state
government
the states we've got local government
opportunities and something called
government affairs in big corporations
that face regulated environments they
tend to hire people at a premium to deal
in their government relations efforts so
a lot of attractive career opportunities
if you follow political science hello
welcome to room 228 in Brewer Hall just
imagine you're here class is about ready
to start you're excited but what we
covered today well I'll show you why
this is such a great place to study and
learn one great thing about studying
here in Brewer Hall is that we have a
lot of quality high tech for example I
teach the course politics and film so
it's very easy to watch our classical
movies for example on this widescreen TV
or if you want to get on the internet in
like another class I teach the theory of
political film we can do so right here
and study right in real time from
whatever resources we desire but say
it's just one of those days you know and
you get bored well you can play bumper
cars in here oh I'm just kidding
actually the purpose of these rolling
desk which are very nice is to make it
possible to do group discussions so
that's great whether your group is made
up of three individuals or a it's really
easy to get together in this room so
imagine your study in theory of
political film and you're looking at
perspectives that could be drawn from
Machiavelli or the French philosopher
Montesquieu you grab your whiteboards
with your partners form your group start
writing down your critical thoughts ah
you're about come on to something
brilliant right this
the bright and cheery classroom in which
to take courses this is a room that we
often use for our introductory classes
including introduction to American
government this classroom holds about 50
students and the space is ideal for
being able to have great contact with
your peers and also your instructor
that's different than at many larger
universities today we're introductory
classes are taught by graduate
assistants in auditoriums may be holding
several hundred students it's better
here are we ready to start class
