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About The Department of Political Science
The Department within the University of Copenhagen
The Department of Political Science is a department within the University of Copenhagen. The Department has about 1550 students, 45 researchers, and a considerable number of research scolars. There is also a number of part-time visiting teachers with full-time jobs outside the university (e.g. in the Danish Central Administration, various types of organizations, and private industry).
The Department is one of five departments of The Faculty of Social Sciences. The other departments are Economics, Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology. The faculty also has a Centre for Applied Computer Science. For further information about the faculty, ask for the booklet "The Faculty of Social Sciences".
Political Science and Multidisciplinary Studies
The Department was established in 1965 and has developed from being an department for contemporary history into its present status as an department of political science. The main emphasis is thus on comparative politics, international politics and public administration, but the department also offers multidisciplinary studies involving courses in Economics, Sociology, Law and Applied Computer Science. It is characteristic of the educational and research profile of the department that efforts are made to combine the political, economic and sociological disciplines in the study of the political processes of society. 
