What courses will I take?

As with nearly every other student in the university, your coursework will fall into three broad areas:

• required classes and electives for your Political Science major.
• core classes that all students take, and
• free electives

Your major classes focus on mastering the content and technical expertise of your chosen field; the core classes help you achieve humanistic and critical thinking skills; and your free electives round out your personal educational plan.

All Political Science majors will complete, as part of their university core requirements, an introductory course on our nations government called the American Political Process, and an analogous introductory course on international geography and cultures entitled The World Community. Additionally, Political Science majors will take the required courses dealing with Research Methods, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Senior Seminar, and Senior Thesis. Around that framework of required courses, five upper division courses in Political Science must also be taken. These can be selected from four different areas: American Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Philosophy.

What would a typical course schedule look like?

FRESHMAN			SOPHOMORE
FYS	101	(1)	RST	Core	(3)
MOL	Core	(3)	POS	212	(3)
POS	110	(3)	POS	Elective	(3)
ENG	Core	(3)	Electives		(6)
MAT	Core	(3)	Science	Core	(3)
HIS	Core	(3)	RST	Core	(3)
MOL	Core	(3)	Electives		(6)
HIS	Core	(3)	POS	Elective	(3)
INS	111	(3)
ENG	Core	(3)
Elective		(3)
Total Credits		(31)	Total Credits		(30)
JUNIOR			SENIOR
PHI	Core	(3)	PHI/RST	Core	(3)
POS	Electives	(6)	Electives		(6)
PHI	Core	(3)	SSC	415, 488	(6)
MAT/ISC/SCI		(3)	POS	Theory Elective	(3)
Electives		(12)	SSC	489	(3)
ENG	Core	(3)	Electives		(9)
SSC	327	(3)	POS	Electives	(6)
Total Credits		(30)	Total Credits		(30)