We are proud to offer a number of opportunities for students to engage more deeply with the department, faculty, and peers! The PSCI Department understands that our students' educations do not end when they leave the classroom, and we seek to connect students with programs and organizations that will enrich their education and create opportunities to network and grow as they continue their academic and professional journeys.
Korea Goes Global
The Korea Goes Global study abroad program explores one of the world's largest and most technically advanced cities, while also taking students into remote traditional Korean communities, including mountain hikes to shaman sites and overnight stays at traditional Confucian villas. By exploring the palaces, temples, and coastal communities of traditional Korea, students will encounter the challenges involved in transitioning from traditional life to becoming a global economic powerhouse. We will explore the legacy of the Korean War and the process by which a devastated country rose to experience the most rapid urbanization project in world history.
Berlin: Bridging Global Divides
Berlin: Bridging Global Divides is a study abroad program for both graduate and undergraduate students. Once a fiercely contested battleground, today's Berlin offers solutions for a more peaceful world. Progressive and environmental politicians and advocates have found their home in Berlin. In this program, students take four seminars that cover both current politics with a focus on underrepresented minorities and the environment as well as Germany’s history, looking at German colonialism as well as Nazi and communist dictatorships.
CU Denver in Ireland
CU Denver in Ireland will combine traditional lecture and panel discussions with civic engagement and community-based collaboration with a local university and several NGOs and grass-roots collectives. The content of the course will focus on the history, politics, and culture of Counties Mayo and Donegal, along with the city of Derry, including but not limited to the Great Hunger and its legacy, Emigration, Independence, the Good Friday Peace Accords, the European Union, Brexit, the revival of the gaelic language, and current political conflict around immigration to Ireland. Outcomes include a broad and nuanced understanding of the past two centuries in the north and west of Ireland and the many political challenges today
CU Denver in Bosnia: Crossroads of Empires
As recent events shift our perceptions of global leadership, and our society develops a deeper recognition of the power, ideologies, and diversity across Eastern Europe, students will have the opportunity to visit two countries with critical positions in determining the future of security, governance, democracy, political strategy, economic development, and human rights across Europe. This course is designed to provide students with a comparative examination of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia, and Croatia. We’ll examine the roles of citizens, governments and civil society actors. A central focus of our time will be to determine how each country is able to achieve public policy goals through institutions, governance, historical prejudices, inequality, and differing relationships between the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
CU Denver in Rwanda & Uganda
CU Denver in Rwanda & Uganda invites students to encounter Rwanda and Uganda not simply as destinations, but as living laboratories in systems complexity. Both nations have undergone profound transformations that no single discipline can adequately explain. Rwanda's post-genocide reconstruction is one of the most debated governance experiments of the past thirty years, a nation that has achieved remarkable development outcomes through a consolidation of state authority that has drawn sustained attention from governance scholars and human rights observers alike, raising fundamental questions about accountability, civic space, and the durability of engineered social change. Uganda offers a counterpoint: a nation navigating the tensions between democratic aspiration and entrenched political authority, and between formal institutions and the informal networks that often govern more effectively. Students will encounter both nations in-process, not as settled histories, but as living systems whose trajectories are still being sh
Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society
Pi Sigma Alpha (ΠΣΑ or PSA) is the National Political Science Honor Society. Its purpose is to recognize and promote high academic achievement in the field of political science.
The CU Denver chapter of PSA supports academic events and student life by sponsoring department mixers, arranging public forums, and bringing students and faculty together in both academic and recreational settings.
Benefits of joining PSA include a rich student community, honors regalia, a notable addition to your résumé, scholarships, awards, and more!
To learn more, contact faculty advisor Tony Robinson at Tony.Robinson@ucdenver.edu
PeaceXchange
PeaceXchange is a student organization committed to the education of youth in peaceful dialogue, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Providing online and in-person resources, PeaceXchange assists in the education of the next generation of peacebuilders. "We hope to increase the number of youth participating in their communities and communities across the world, leading dialogue sessions and working towards a common goal of a more peaceful world."
PRAXIS Politics in Action
The PSCI Student Journal: Praxis, Politics in Action, is accepting submissions for publication. Submit your student paper/manuscript for reviewal for the Spring 2027 edition.
The journal serves as a venue for undergraduate and graduate students in the CU Denver Political Science Department to publish their scholarly and creative work. We are committed to advancing the public good through accessible scholarship.
Guidelines for Submissions
To be considered for publication in the Spring 2027 edition of PRAXIS, please submit your manuscript by December 15, 2026.
Your work must be:
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Double-spaced
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12-point font
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1 inch margins
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Most articles are 10-30 double-spaced pages long. Selecter longer manuscripts of high quality will be considered.
Submit your manuscript to: tony.robinson@ucdenver.edu
New Directions in Politics and Public Policy
The New Directions Program offers an MA in applied Political Science at the University of Colorado Denver. We prepare students to work in several areas such as public agencies, labor movement groups, public policy institutes and community-based organizations. Since our students come from a variety of backgrounds/careers/experiences, our courses are delivered through a weekend program format that provides flexibility for working professionals and other non-traditional students. Our instructors are practitioners in their respective fields, skilled in providing our students with opportunities to learn practical content, develop relevant tools, and apply effective strategies within their professional environment.
The Fourth World Center
Student Profile: Sky Roosevelt-Morris
A Conversation with Winona LaDuke
Colorado Repeals Columbus Day: 2020
Will US Recognize Native American Genocide?
American Indian Critique of Sovereignty
BIPOC Student Resource Committee
The Romero Theater Troupe