The Department includes 7 academics, 9 PhD students, 9 researchers and post-docs and 1 administrative staff member. It is responsible for teaching within these disciplinary fields delivered at the Faculty and directs the Bachelor of Political Science and Bachelor of Information and Communication programs. Its members are engaged in researchwithin the Transitions and NADI Research Institutes and around three major themes: digital media & communication, transitions and the age of life, and democratic transformations.