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The purpose of the Political Science
Department is to encourage the critical and creative study of people, power,
and the public good in order (a) to enable ordinary citizens to empower
themselves as participants in the democratic process, while (b) equipping
leaders to better serve the public good. The Department promotes no particular,
"correct" vision of the public good,but it does stress the importance of
citizens' having visions and acting on them. The Department has been called
"the most
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transformational political-science
department in the United States" by The Transformer, published by the APSA's
Ecological and Transformational Politics section. External reviewers have
called CU-Denver Political Science "one of the top teaching
departments in the country for
a program of its size."
"The privilege and the
penalty of your education and the position you hold in your community is
that, over the coming decades, as in the past, you will be the pacesetters
for political and social thought in your community. You may not accept
this responsibility, but it makes no difference. It is inescapable.
If you decide to set no pace, to forward no
dreams, and to have no vision,
you will still be the pace setters. You will simply have decided
that there is no pace."
— Adlai Stevenson
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