Two very different subjects. Political Science would have been over my head.
Oil Painting was something that helped me process what I saw in front of me or what was in my head...
Political Science has components to Politics and History in it, doesn't matter if it happened to be international, or classes like American Civilization which has some key points to International Perspectives.
My writing has been shaped a little bit from what I can recall with Art, and Politics... only in my first novel it's autistic politics.