Political Science, BA

Required, 9 credits

Upper-level courses requirement, 18 credits

Take at least 18 credits in courses numbered 300 and above.

• POLI 300 - Analyzing Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 301 - Game Theory for Political Scientists Credits: 3
• POLI 304 - Environmental Politics and Policy Credits: 3
• POLI 305 - Climate Change Politics and Policy Credits: 3
• POLI 306 - Health Politics and Policies Credits: 3
• POLI 307 - Politics and the Media Credits: 3
• POLI 308 - Public Opinion Credits: 3
• POLI 309 - Tribal Governments in the United States Credits: 3
• POLI 310 - American Presidency Credits: 3
• POLI 314 - Public Policy Issues Credits: 3
• POLI 315 - Minority Group Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 316 - Parties and Elections Credits: 3
• POLI 320 - Legislative Process Credits: 3
• POLI 324 - Religion and Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 325 - Business, Government, and Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 330 - Constitutional Law Credits: 3
• POLI 331 - Constitutional Law: Special Topics Credits: 3
• POLI 334 - Courts and Public Policy Credits: 3
• POLI 335 - Law and Society Credits: 3
• POLI 338 - Environmental Law and Regulation Credits: 3
• POLI 341 - Urban Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 354 - Public Personnel Administration Credits: 3
• POLI 356 - Government Finance Credits: 3
• POLI 358 - Public Budgets Credits: 3
• POLI 361 - European Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 362 - East European Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 363 - The Politics of the European Union Credits: 3
• POLI 371 - Chinese Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 374 - Political Development Credits: 3
• POLI 375 - Latin American Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 376 - International Political Economy Credits: 3
• POLI 380 - Conflict, Security, and Peace in International Relations Credits: 3
• POLI 382 - Latin America in World Affairs Credits: 3
• POLI 383 - U.S. Foreign Policy Credits: 3
• POLI 385 - International Organizations and Law Credits: 3
• POLI 386 - Politics of Terrorism and Homeland Security Credits: 3
• POLI 387 - International Simulation Credits: 1-3
• POLI 388 - International Law Credits: 3
• POLI 389 - Public Policy for Sustainable Communities Credits: 3
• POLI 391 - American Political Thought Credits: 3
• POLI 392 - Politics, Art, and Film Credits: 3
• POLI 393 - Ancient and Medieval Western Political Theory Credits: 3
• POLI 394 - Political Ideas that Changed the World Credits: 3
• POLI 395 - Political Ideas Today Credits: 3
• POLI 396 - Radical and Utopian Politics Credits: 3
• POLI 397 - Methods of Policy Analysis Credits: 3
• POLI 414 - Politics of Race, Class and Gender in the U.S. Credits: 3
• POLI 450 - Law, Policy, and Regulation Credits: 3
• POLI 455 - Internship in Government Credits: 1-6
• POLI 490 - Selected Problems in Political Science Credits: 1-3
• POLI 497 - Methods of Political Science Research Credits: 3
• POLI 498 - Political Science Capstone Seminar Credits: 3
• POLI 499 - Special Work Credits: 1-3 (when taken as a 3 credit independent study)

Political Science Subfields, 12 credits

Take at least 3 credits in each of the four fields listed below.

World Language Courses, 0-8 credits

Complete a two-semester sequence of university entry-level world language courses (101, 102). The requirement may be fulfilled through equivalent coursework or other language acquisition as demonstrated through a test-out policy (including Native American languages and American Sign Language). If your native language is not English and you can document formal high school or university study of your native language, you may use ENGL 101  and ENGL 202 , or ENGL 150  as a means of fulfilling this world language requirement. Please see the Department of World Languages and Literatures  for details.

Teacher Certification

1. You need 12 credits American politics and government, including 3 credits public law and 3 credits state and local: 6 credits comparative and international; 6 credits theory including POLI 300  or POLI 497  that is required for certification by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
2. THE DPI requires all elementary and secondary education majors to take POLI 101 .
3. Also see information about the Professional Education Program in the Education  section, and information about Secondary Education for teacher certification in the Secondary/K-12 Education Curriculum for Teacher Certification  section of this catalog.