The Department of Political Science is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Our English web pages offer information on the Department itself and its six units, as well as on our teaching and research.

A total of 2,294 undergraduates and graduate students are currently enrolled at the Department (last update: Jan. 2010). In Political Science we have 1,307 students in the old non-consecutive M. A. programme (558 as a major), and 366 in the new B. A. programme (219 as a major); in "Civics" for high-school teachers, we have 475 students in the old non-consecutive "Staatsexamen" programme, and 146 in the new B. Ed. programme. In addition, several dozen graduates are currently working towards a Ph. D. in Political Science.

 

Profile

The Department of Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University looks back on a history of more than four decades of politics as an academic discipline in Mainz. In the early 1960s, long before the social sciences became a recognized academic division of their own in German universities, two chairs for the "Science of Politics" were already established in Mainz - one in the Faculty of Philosophy, the other in the Faculty of Law. A decade later, these chairs were integrated into what became the Department of Political Science. Today, the Department is a vigorous entity, home of app. 30 faculty, all of whom are dedicated both to teaching and to research.