Requirements for the Major (44 credits)

I. Required Foundation Courses (16 credits)

Complete all of the following:

course - Comparative Political Systems
course - American Government and Politics
course - International Relations
course - Introduction to Political Theory

II. Intermediate and Upper-Level Electives (28 credits)

In addition to the required foundation courses, students must complete 28 credits (total) in intermediate (200) and upper (300) level courses and they must be distributed across at least three of the four subfields in the discipline. At least three of these courses (12 credits) must be at the upper-level. A minimum of 12 of these intermediate and upper-level credits must be taken on campus. A maximum of 8 departmental internship course credits may be counted towards the Major.

A. American Politics, Government, and Policy

B. Comparative Politics and Government

course - European Politics
course - Chinese Politics
course - Middle East Politics
course - East Asian Politics
course - Selected Topics: Comparative Politics
course - Selected Topics: Comparative Politics
course - Comparative Political Economy
course - Authoritarian Politics
course - Global Health
course/course - Health Policy
course - On Democracy
course - London Semester Interdisciplinary Colloquium
course - Contemporary British Politics

C. International Relations

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 - Muslims and the West
course - Selected Topics: International Relations
course - UN Community Internship
course - International Environmental Policy and Politics
course - Principles of International Law
course - International Human Rights
course - Torture: Pain, Body, and Truth
course - Comparative Political Economy
course/course - Political Economy of War and Peace
course/course - Global Discourse on Human Rights
course - Comparative Foreign Policy
course - Selected Studies in International Politics
course - International Political Economy
course - Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the 21st Century
course - The United Nations System and the International Community
course - Research Seminar on the United Nations
course - Social Entrepreneurship: Theorizing Global Trends

D. Political Theory

course - Selected Topics: Political Theory
course - Policing and the Rule of Law: Gender, Race, and Citizenship
course/course - Political Sociology
course - Research Methods in Political Science
course - Advanced Topics in Political Theory
course - International Human Rights
course - Cultural Diversity and the Law
course - Torture: Pain, Body, and Truth

Notes

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. Additional highly recommended courses are course and course.

course - Independent Study in Political Science may satisfy a requirement with department approval.

PSCI - Political Science Major

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