Graduate Student Education in Political Theory

Each student’s program is tailored to her interests within the constraints of departmental requirements. The Guide to the Study of Political Theory at Vanderbilt University is designed to help students design a successful program.
The dissertation is the most important project of the graduate career. The student works closely with a faculty mentor in designing her dissertation.

Even if your first field is not political theory, you may find the discipline of writing a paper in Political Theory useful for clarifying your thinking about the issue you consider worthy of your research and thinking.

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