政治學(Political Science)
Pro-democracy stand-off in Tienanmen Square. (AP/Wide World Photos.)
政治系是在西元1955年正式成立的，當時還是依附在經濟和社會科學系之內，是麻省理工學院試圖發展社會科學的一連串努力的一環。政治系目前的核心師資群當時多半都在國際研究中心工作，該中心是一個先驅性的跨領域組織，研究美國外交政策和安全議題、第三世界的經濟和政治發展、共產社會和國際溝通。到了西元1958年，校方授與了第一個政治學博士學位。
政治學在西元1965年開始獨立成為一個系所，提供了學士、碩士和博士的學位。
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The Political Science Department was formally established in 1955, within what was then the Department of Economics and Social Science, as part of a broad effort to develop research and training at MIT in the social sciences. The nucleus of a Political Science faculty had already been formed within the Center for International Studies, a pioneering, interdisciplinary research center working on American foreign policy and security issues, economic and political development in the Third World, Communist societies, and international communication. By 1958, a Ph.D. in political science had been authorized. Political Science became an independent department in 1965, offering an undergraduate major and a Master's degree, as well as the Ph.D.
For more information, go to http://web.mit.edu/polisci/.
