The Political Science program at Weber State University is located in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The program serves a wide variety of students at Weber State University, from majors and minors in political science, to social science general education students, to students taking their American Institutions requirement, to students enrolled in any one of the numerous interdisciplinary minors that involve the study of politics, to students majoring in teaching with a focus in political science or the social sciences, to any student interested in taking a political science course.

Political science, in the broadest sense, is the study of politics particularly as it relates to governments and people. Political scientists study governments: The origins and preconditions for governments, the growth and evolution of governments, and the decline and conflict among governments. Political scientists also are interested in how governments are structured, how governments make decisions, the policies that result from political decisions and the consequences of these policies, and how governments manage societal and international conflicts. Political scientists also study people: Their values and positions on issues, their preferences among candidates, their support for public officials, and their appraisals of their government. True to their oldest academic traditions, political scientists retain their concern with the fundamental questions of how governments ought to be constituted, and how they can best serve their citizens.