Requirements for the Major (46 credits)

I. Core (20 credits)

Complete all of the following:

• course - Comparative Political Systems

• course - International Relations

• course - International Security

• course - International Political Economy

And one course in Human Rights (from the following):

• course - Transnational Feminisms

• course - Special Topics in Human Rights

• course - Refugees and Migrants: The Global Crisis of Immigration

• course - International Human Rights

• course - Torture: Pain, Body, and Truth

• course - Seminar on Human Rights

II. Language Study (4 credits)

Students must complete one course in the target language beyond Drew’s general education requirement. Students starting a language at Drew will therefore require four semesters of language study to fulfill this requirement. Students who place beyond the fourth semester of language instruction in a Drew foreign language will be considered to have completed this requirement, and can complete the major with only 42 credits.

III. Intermediate or Upper-Level (20 credits)

In addition to the required core, language and capstone courses, students must take 24 credits (total) in the intermediate (200) and upper level (300) level courses. At least half of these credits (12) must be at the upper level. A minimum of 16 of these intermediate and upper level credits must be taken on campus.

• course - Internship in Political Science

• course - Quantitative Approaches to Political Science

• course - European Politics

• course - Chinese Politics

• course - Middle East Politics

• course - East Asian Politics

• course - United States Foreign Policy

• course - Transnational Feminisms

• course - Terrorism

• course - International Security

• course - Special Topics in Human Rights

• course - Refugees and Migrants: The Global Crisis of Immigration

• course - Selected Studies in Political Science

• course - Muslims and the West

• course - Selected Topics: International Relations

• course - Selected Topics in Comparative Politics

• course- Environmental Security & Climate Change or course

• course - UN Community Internship

• course - Internship Project in Washington

• course - Research Methods in Political Science

• course - American Political Economy

• course - International Environmental Policy and Politics

• course - Principles of International Law

• course - International Human Rights

• course - Selected Topics: Comparative Politics

• course - Torture: Pain, Body, and Truth

• course - Comparative Political Economy

• course - Global Discourse on Human Rights or course

• course - Authoritarian Politics

• course - Selected Studies in International Politics

• course - International Political Economy

• course - Seminar on Human Rights

• course - Health Policy

• course - Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the 21st Century

• course - London Semester Interdisciplinary Colloquium

• course - Contemporary British Politics

• course - The History of Modern Britain

• course - The United Nations System and the International Community

• course - Research Seminar on the United Nations

• course - Elections and Policy Making in Washington

• course - Research Practicum in Washington

• course - Social Entrepreneurship: Theorizing Global Trends

IV. Capstone (2 credits)

• course - International Relations Capstone

Note

A student can propose to have a maximum of 8 credits from other departments applied to the Major. The proposal must be substantively related to the Major’s focus and be approved by the faculty adviser. Students planning to attend graduate school in Political Science, Public Policy, Public Administration, or a related field and students planning to write an honors thesis or enroll in upper-level research seminars are encouraged to take course - Research Methods in Political Science.