Undergraduate Advising & Mentoring
Our program places a premium on faculty-student contact. We call our advising program mentoring and we make a commitment to see each undergraduate student at least one time per semester for a conference. Mentors will be assigned when you declare a major.
Other Steps to Success
See an Arts and Sciences Advisor in Queen Liliu`okalani Student Services Center #113 to check on your core and language requirements, and any other graduation requirements. Don't hesitate to consult your political science advisors and Arts and Sciences advisors to make sure you are on track or to help sort out any problems you are having with the system's rules.
Your friends and peers are among the best resources you will have. Most instructors urge cooperative learning so study together, compare experiences, pool your knowledge, but write your own papers.
You are urged to attend Department meetings and serve on the committees which make decisions on the curriculum and other Department issues that affect you. You are also urged to exercise your vote in local and national elections.
Other Items of Interest
There are Departmental colloquia held nearly every week from 2:30-4:00, usually in Saunders 624. A wide variety of interesting topics is covered by speakers from the Department as well as other parts of the world. We urge you to attend some of them as part of your education in political science.
Occasionally, we have Department parties on Friday afternoons. They are complete with food and drink and are usually held to celebrate something like a new faculty member, a holiday, or Friday itself. They are pot-luck and you are invited.