Records of the chair of the Department of Political Science, as well as files from the
office as a whole. The correspondence files largely consist of letters between the dean and
associate dean of the College of Letters & Science and the chair of the Dept. of
Political Science regarding budgets, staffing, program development, events, and
curricula.
Much of the collection pertains to the development of a Law Studies Program within the
Political Science department. Included with the Law Studies materials are NEH Grant reports,
consultation reports, budgets, correspondence, curricula, and other records of the Law
Studies coordinator. The collection also contains materials on a Washington D.C. internship
coordinated by the Dept. of Political Science and information regarding the Political
Research Laboratory. Also included are course syllabi, minutes of various committees,
documentation of graduate programs, information about the student strike of 1970, and
correspondence of the Joint Conference Committee of the Political Science Departments of
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee (1957-1963).
The collection also includes course syllabi from courses offered by the Department from
1988-2014. Many of the paper syllabi folders (1988-2010) also contain blank copies of
midterm and final exams from the courses to which they pertain; such folders are labeled in
the boxes, and the exams are provided for pedagogical study purposes.
