University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Political Science

Political Science was first listed as a subject in the catalogue of 1893-94. 1 In 1895, the Board of Trustees established a department "of political science and constitutional history and law". 2 The studies offered were listed as the Political Science Group under the College of Literature and Arts. The group included history, economics, and public law and administration. 3 In 1901, the Board of Trustees approved the studies of political science and industrial economics as a separate department in the College of Literature and Arts. 4 The 1904-05 Announcements listed these studies under the department of Science and Government 5 and the 1905-06 Register listed them under the Political Science Department. 6

In 1935 the Division of Social Sciences was established with Political Science as one of the departments included in the division. 7

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