Advising Info
To set up an advising appointment, please use our online appointment scheduler. Please note that since office traffic decreases over the summer, we may not post as many appointments on the calendar. If you do not see any available appointment times, feel free to reach out to polsci-advisor@umich.edu for assistance.
🌟Course planning note🌟 As you are browsing courses for your Political Science major or minor, please make sure that you're checking our subfield guide. This color-coded guide will tell you exactly which subfields each Fall 2022 Political Science course will count for.
Important Dates:
Monday, September 5: Labor Day - no classes
Monday, September 19: Full term course Drop/Add deadline
October 17-18: Fall study break - no classes
November 23-25: Thanksgiving Break - no classes
December 9: Last day of classes
December 12-16, 19 - Final Exams
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Michigan in Washington
The Michigan in Washington program is accepting applications for Winter 2023 and early admission to Fall 2023. The deadline is October 3rd and applications are available on M-Compass.
Info Session: September 8th (TODAY!), 6:00pm
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97799752243
Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. Some examples of past internships that have been undertaken by those in the program are:
- House Judiciary Committee
- Various think tanks
- the Department of Justice
- Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill
What is Michigan in Washington:
The MIW program offers an opportunity for 20 students for each semester (Fall and Winter), from any major, to spend the semester in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest. The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, a research course on Friday mornings, and explore the city on weekends.
Students are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a professional development class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. This course also provides guidance with resumes and cover letters, as well as learning how to network and interview successfully.
Who should apply?
MIW is open to 3rd and 4th year students of all majors. If you are interested in learning outside of a typical academic setting, while experiencing the vibrant city life of Washington, D.C., we strongly encourage you to apply. We seek students who are serious about exploring the reach of their academic skills, and we work to help students find fulfilling and cutting-edge internships in their field of choice.
FUNDING IS AVAILABLE. MIW scholarships do not need to be applied for, if you are admitted to the program you are automatically eligible for funding. All funding is based on financial need. For example, our Opportunity Fund offers funding up to $5000! This scholarship provides need-based support to students for whom a semester in Washington D.C. represents an exceptional opportunity to advance their professional goals. Preference will be given to students with a record of superior academic achievement and who are the first in their families to attend college, who have experienced hardship as a result of family economic circumstances, or who come from underrepresented educational or geographical backgrounds, such as public high schools in rural or urban areas.
Email Amber Blomquist at akblomqu@umich.edu with any questions.
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NEW! THIS WEEK: Senator Mazie Hirano visits the Michigan-Hawaii Student Association
Friday, September 9, 7:00pm (doors open at 6:45)
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
The event will surround AAPI issues, influences of growing up in Hawaii, and women of color in politics. It is also an incredible opportunity to have a live, intimate conversation with a highly respected Senator in the US Congress.
NEW! Sanger Leadership Center Information Session
Wednesday, September 14, 4:30-4:30pm
Blau Colloquium - 5th Floor, Blau Hall
Join staff and student leaders to learn which opportunities you can get involved in this year at the Sanger Leadership Center to advance your leadership skills and deepen your personal growth. Whether you end up in the boardroom at Michigan Stadium, on a personal journey to learn about your values and purpose, or with a group of like-minded peers practicing the art of storytelling, all of our programs are designed to help you learn through action and reflection.
From 4:30 to 5 PM, Sanger team members will provide an overview of our programs. From 5 to 5:30 PM, there will be an open-house style session where you can visit our program tables and engage with our program leads, student leaders, and each other.
You'll have the opportunity to:
• Meet with Sanger staff and current students
• Learn which programs are right for you
• Mingle with other students from Ross and across U-M
• Enter to win Sanger swag
• Enjoy light refreshments
We’ll feature the following programs:
• LDRx (Leader Experience)
• Leading Inclusive Teams
• Leadership Crisis Challenge
• Leadership Dialogues
• Legacy Lab
• Michigan Ross Leader Endorsement
• Ross Leaders Academy
• Story Lab
Beyond Militarism Conference (Online Attendance Available)
September 22-23
In the 21st century, when we are said to be living in unprecedented times, what does it take to make war? Visions conflict as to the future of war, and what it means to be at war now. At the same time as “great-power competition” is widely considered resurgent, war has become global in seemingly new ways with the integration of technologies and tactics that trouble conventional distinctions between war and peace. Growing interconnectivity seems to herald a new complexity. However, the patterns and long continuities of state violence raise questions about what might be obscured through such claims of newness. What, if anything, is new in the new new wars? What does it take to make war seem foreign, and who gets to be “outside” of war, unimplicated in the violence of the state? What, if anything, remains untouched by this violence?
This two-day conference aims to prompt a fresh reckoning with the very foundations necessary for making, and making sense of, war, empire, peace, and security in the present. Critical scholars increasingly recognize the artificiality of divides inherent in many accounts of state violences – for instance, between the “domestic” and the “foreign.” However, challenges remain in untangling how state violences work through both the highly particular and local, and through broader global systems of power.
This conference proceeds from a place of critical and interdisciplinary reckoning with such divisions, with an emphasis on exercises of power that structure the very socio-political. What could happen if we set aside comfortable frames: if we “forgot militarization,” as Alison Howell has urged (2018), or if we looked beneath the presumptions built into concepts like militarism? Interrogation of police and military violence have troubled distinctions made between the two (Schrader 2019; Estes 2019; Singh 2017; Gouldhawke 2020; Manso 2016; Seigel 2017) and raised questions fundamental to any analysis of war. How and why is state violence organized, how is it justified, and why does it take the forms it does? How might the answers to these questions change? What might be made visible with a re-cognition and centering of the fundamentals of war and the “military” and the range of violences of the present: of empire, settler colonialism, police, race, gender, the “human”?
And if state violences "[tie] our fates together" (Paik 2017, 18), how do people take hold of such connections to resist, create, and envision another world? How might abolitionism as a "praxis of creativity" (Rodríguez 2019, 1612) provide ways into thinking and acting otherwise at a time when war - in whatever forms it may take - is so deeply integrated into the everyday?
Venue: Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge and online.
The venue is fully accessible and the conference will be held on the ground floor.
Registration is now open for the Beyond Militarism conference, held at the University of Cambridge and online via zoom: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-militarism-tickets-405856617067.
For more information and to see the provisional conference program, please visit https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events/beyond-militarism.
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Public Service Intern Program (PSIP)
PSIP is the largest and oldest intern program in the country and is for undergraduate students who are interested in interning in Washington DC in Summer 2023. Students report PSIP as a transformative experience in their U-M education, as Career Center staff led career development seminars in A2 during the academic year and PSIP culminates with summer internships in DC. During the summer, interns network with U-M alumni and attend briefings/tours at DC organizations. Previous internships have included non-profits, consulting firms, NGO's, and with members of Congress.
Applications are are open September 12-22, 2022. Mass meetings to provide more information will be held in 1120 Ford School Monday, September 12th at 6 p.m. and Thursday, September 15st at 7 p.m. (only attend one)
For more information, contact psipcoordinators@umich.edu
Give Merit's FATE Program Mentorship
Are you looking for a volunteer opportunity that engages youth in Detroit? If so, Give Merit’s mentorship program, FATE, is looking for University of Michigan students to become mentors!
FATE is a four-year, cohort-based program for high school students in Detroit who attend the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy. Its mission is to provide resources and opportunities for Detroit youth to embrace education and become world-class citizens, with a goal to motivate each student to graduate high school and attend college.
The four-year cohort-based program provides innovative programming which blends project-based learning, character development, career exposure, and mentorship into a co-curricular experience emphasizing the value of education and the role it plays in providing access to achieving long term career and personal goals.
Mentors help facilitate workshop activities where students learn skills in business, entrepreneurship, marketing, and design-thinking while also supporting their mentees as they develop personally and professionally. The curriculum is complemented by ongoing soft-skill building activities and regular excursion workshops with community partners such as Zingerman’s, Google, Carhartt, and Plante Moran.
Check out this video to learn more about the FATE Program!
If you are interested in mentoring for the FATE Program during the 2022-2023 academic year, email Give Merit’s Program Success Director, Rachel Mazzaro, at rmazzaro@meritgoodness.com for more information!
Undergraduate Journal of Public Health
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