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 of political power in both historical and modern terms?
• How can we explain their emergence, their evolution, their successes, their difficulties?
• 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 Sciences provides answers to these and other questions through the analysis of various specialised fields: political parties and interest groups, electoral analyses, international relations, (political) regimes,… The Bachelor of Political Sciences programme introduces these different fields.

The programme also includes courses in the human sciences, in law and in economics that give insight into human relationships, their functioning and their development. It also involves training students to gather 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 undertakings of public authorities.

The Bachelor’s programme is a three-year course of study, and each year counts 60 ETCS credits. The entire programme counts 180 ETCS credits.

At Saint-Louis, Bachelor of Political Sciences students may choose to follow courses in one of the following language options:

• Unilingual: the programme is taught in French with the exception of one course to be followed in Dutch or in English during the second term of the 3^rd year.
• Bilingual French-English: each year, three courses are taught in English.
• Bilingual French-Dutch: each year, three courses are taught in Dutch.
• Trilingual French-Dutch-English: each year, two courses are taught in English and two courses are taught in Dutch.