Saint-Louis University, Brussels offers its Bachelor of Political Sciences degree not only during daytime classes but also during evening classes, and it is the only university to do so among the Belgian French-speaking universities.

The Bachelor of Political Sciences studies consist primarily of learning to decode the power mechanisms that rule the world in which we live:

• How are decisions made and at which levels of power?
• Who genuinely exerts influence on a decision and in the interest of whom?
• What are the main systems/bodies/structures of political power in both historical and modern terms?
• How can we explain their emergence, their evolution, their successes, their difficulties/struggles/shortcomings/plight?
• What are stakes today on the national, European and global levels? Whom do they oppose? In which balance of power? With which outcome scenarios?

Political science provides answers to these and other questions through various specialised fields: political parties and interest groups, electoral analyses, international relations, political regimes,… The Bachelor of Political Science programme introduces these different fields.

The programme also includes courses in the human sciences, in law and in economics that give insight into human relations/relationships, their functioning and their development/evolution. It also involves training students to gather information/data and to subsequently process it statistically in order to better understand human phenomena from a scientific standpoint.

Political scientists can be found in all positions related to the actions/undertakings of public authorities.

For over twenty years, Saint-Louis University, Brussels has offered university education during evening classes to those who wish to further or refocus their education while continuing to work or while seeking employment.

Courses take place on Monday through Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. (up to 9 p.m.), as well as on some Saturday mornings.

The Bachelor of Political Science degree taught during evening classes is a three-year programme.

This course of study has two components: one provides a general educational background and the other focuses on political science.

The general, or foundation, component of the programme aims to ensure the students’ acquisition of the fundamental background in the human and social sciences. This goal is accomplished, on the one hand, through introductory courses in the core disciplines/subjects/fields of the human and social sciences (philosophy, history, economics, law, sociology, psychology) and, on the other hand, through courses and seminars intended to ensure that students have a firm grasp of the range of analytical methods in the human and social sciences (statistics, computer science, historical criticism, and the seminars on “principles and methods in the social sciences” and “ research approaches and methods in the social sciences”.

The political science component of the programme involves not only introductory courses in the core disciplines/fields/subjects that constitute the foundation to the study of political science (economics, public law, political sociology, political history) but also courses in the field of political science per se: general subjects such as political science, seminar on political science, political science: founding texts; and specialized subjects such as comparative politics, political parties and interest groups, EU politics, public policy analysis, the analysis of international relations,…).