Department Mission:

The programs offered by the Department of Economics, History, and Political Science have a unique and complementary approach to liberal learning.  The department provides its majors with a foundational education grounded in the liberal arts tradition of St. Francis College. At the same time, the department interfaces with the general education objectives of the College as it prepares its majors in the necessary cognitive and communication skills essential to their post-collegiate careers and for intelligent participation in our American democratic society. The skills encouraged within the department, articulating significant questions, framing hypotheses, gathering evidence, looking for patterns and relationships, weighing alternative methods and interpretations, and, finally, articulating substantive arguments and conclusions with clarity and persuasion - are proficiencies in high demand in a wide variety of professions.