Political Science and Public Policy

Elon University’s Mock Trial program competes March 21-23, 2014, at the American Mock Trial Association’s Opening Round Championship Series Tournament hosted by Furman University in Greenville, S.C.

Elon University students can use TurboVote to register to vote and obtain absentee ballots should they wish to participate in either their home states' primaries or North Carolina's primary set for May 6, 2014.

Come join a panel of experts and discuss the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Take the opportunity to raise questions about foreign policy, conflict, international economics, security and minority rights.

Television personality and author S.E. Cupp visits campus on Feb. 27 for a program in Oaks 212 sponsored by Elon University student groups Young Americans for Liberty and the College Republicans.

The political science and international studies double major is a Lumen Scholar studying the evolution of LGBT rights in parts of Europe.

Dana H. Born, the first woman to be presidentially appointed to lead faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy, visited Elon on Feb. 11, 2014, to offer leadership lessons through class visits and an evening talk.

Students can choose from four programs in Jewish Studies, Film Production, New Media Studies and Central European Studies.

Polls from Feb. 21-26 will ask residents of Alamance County and of North Carolina about their opinions on various social, economic and political issues.

Croatian film critic, prominent LGBT activist and media personality will host a screening and discussion of the first Croatian LGBT film, 'Fine Dead Girls.'

MIMA SIMIĆ: Croatian writer, film critic, activist, media personality, and Croatian LGBT person of the decade.  Mima will talk on "LGBT Politics and Activist Strategies of Media Subversion,” discussing how she and other activists and organizations have used strategies of media subversion to affect public and social attitudes on homosexuality and gender in Croatia. Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon visiting assistant professor of sociology, will join Mima and compare and discuss LGBT activism in the United States, specifically the South.