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Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Political Science
The minimum number of semester credit hours required for
the Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, including the Core Curriculum
requirements, is 120. Thirty-nine of the total semester credit hours required
for the degree must be at the upper-division level.
All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements
and the degree requirements, which are listed below.
Core Curriculum requirements:
Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science must
fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as
other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree
requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses
are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take
additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit
hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that
satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 9-13 of this catalog.
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Degree Requirements
A. 33 semester credit hours in the major, 21 of which must be at the upper-division
level. Courses must be selected in the following manner:
1. 6 semester credit hours of courses selected from the following:
POL 2503 Introduction to Political Theory
POL 2513 Public Administration and Public
Policy
POL 2533 Introduction to Political Science
POL 2603 International Politics
POL 2623 Law and Society
POL 2633 Comparative Politics
2. POL 2703 Scope and Methods of Political
Science
3. 21 semester credit hours of political science electives, 18 of which
must be at the upper-division level, with at least 3 hours in each of
the following subfields (see list courses by subfield on page 316):
American politics
Comparative politics
International relations
Political theory
Public administration or public law
4. One senior-level seminar selected from the following:
POL 4153 Seminar in Jurisprudence
POL 4973 Seminar in Political Science
Approved section of POL 4953 Special Studies
in Political Science
B. 6 semester credit hours of courses in the social sciences outside the
major, chosen with consent of the advisor.
C. 6 semester credit hours of a single language other than English.
D. 33 semester credit hours of electives Top
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