Departments & Programs
Maxwell offers a rich mix of professional, scholarly, and undergraduate programs. The highly regarded professional degrees are offered in both conventional graduate and midcareer/executive formats. Master’s and PhD degrees are given in a variety of social
sciences — departments that also provide undergraduate instruction to Syracuse University bachelor's candidates. Also for undergrads, Maxwell recently launched a major in citizenship and civic engagement.
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(BA/MA/PhD) Training and mentoring in sociocultural studies, historical archaeology, and bioarchaeology.
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(BA only) Building on Maxwell's definitional embrace of multidisciplinary citizenship studies; taken in conjunction with a second social science degree.
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(BA/BS/MA/PhD) Emphasis on applied and policy-oriented economics, meshing with the School's public policy environment.
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(BA/BS) An Integrated Learning Major that grounds students in the interdisciplinary study of environmental science, sustainability, and policy.
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(Training/EMPA/EMIR/Certificates) Midcareer professional training and degrees, including executive MPA, executive IR, and stand-alone 12-credit certificates.
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(BA/MA/PhD) Formative social and natural processes and their geographical contexts, such as cities; regions; the world system; tropical, riverine, or arctic environments.
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(BA/MA/PhD) Bridging the humanities and social sciences; dissertations often combine social science research methods and humanities subjects.
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(BA/MA/PhD) International security, political economy, foreign and domestic policy, transnational actors, and law and courts, Middle East, East Asia, and qualitative research.
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(MPA, MA, PhD) Skills-oriented one-year MPA; 16-month interdisciplinary MA in international relations with global internship; specialized joint degrees; 18-month MA in public diplomacy and global communications.
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(BA only) Analytical and workplace skills for a public-sector career (but applicable elsewhere); also emphasizing experiential learning and community service.
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(Multidisciplinary PhD) A center of creative scholarship for doctoral students whose intellectual interests transcend the confines of a single discipline.
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(BA/MA/PhD) Interdisciplinary approaches to public sociology in order to understand, critique, and address structural and social inequalities.