What is the most rewarding aspect of teaching at DePaul?
University teaching creates two sorts of rewards. In the short term, it is special when students begin to share that excitement about discovering people and places beyond their personal horizons. That is the bulb flashes “on” sort of reward. But the greatest reward is the long term phenomenon when, after some years, an alum shares how the experience at DePaul has crystallized goals or made achieving them easier. As a professor in comparative politics, I know that what we do here creates a platform for citizenship and success in the globalized world of the 21st century. DePaul has chosen to emphasize the inter-dependent nature of our world in its curriculum. What do you like best about DePaul students? Our curriculum in Political Science is constructed around choice. Students are not required to take any one or any single sequence of courses. In my 30 plus years of experience at DePaul, students appreciate the fact that they can customize their studies to their interests. Students enter
