BA in Political Science

Course Requirements

The following requirements must be fulfilled:

The general requirements stated under Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Undergraduate Programs.

Program-specific curriculum:

Prerequisite

• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Introduction to American Politics and Government
• Introduction to International Politics (or the equivalent)

Two courses in either economics or history, and an additional four courses in the social sciences selected from the following departments: ANTH (excluding ANTH 1001, ANTH 1005, and courses in the 3400 range), COMM, GEOG, HMSR, LING, SMPA (excluding SMPA 2112, SMPA 3236, and SMPA 2117), ORSC, PSYC, SPHR, SOC, IAFF, PSTD, and WGSS. Students also may choose from the following courses:

• Honors Microeconomics
• Honors Macroeconomics
• Sea Power and Maritime Affairs
• Evolution of Warfare
• Amphibious Warfare

The program strongly recommends that students take 12 credits in introductory foreign language and statistics.

Required

Ten upper-division political science courses for a total of 30 credits, including one course from each of the following groups:

Group A (comparative politics)

• Comparative Politics of Western Europe
• Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe
• European Integration
• Global Perspectives on Democracy
• State–Society Relations in the Developing World
• Development Politics
• Nationalism
• Comparative Political Economy
• Russian Politics
• Human Rights
• Human Rights
• Politics in the Two Koreas
• Comparative Politics of South Asia
• Comparative Politics of China and Northeast Asia
• Politics and Foreign Policy of China
• Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia
• Politics and Foreign Policy of Japan
• Comparative Politics of the Middle East
• Comparative Politics of the Middle East
• Politics and Foreign Policy of Israel
• Comparative Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
• Comparative Politics of Latin America
• Special Topics in Comparative Politics

Group B (American government and politics)

• State and Urban Politics
• State and Urban Policy Problems
• Judicial Politics
• U.S. Constitutional Law and Politics I
• U.S. Constitutional Law and Politics II
• The American Presidency
• Executive Branch Politics
• Legislative Politics
• Legislative Politics
• Political Parties and Interest Groups
• Public Opinion
• African-American Politics
• Science, Technology, and Politics
• Campaigns and Elections
• Issues in Domestic Public Policy
• Women and Politics
• Media, Politics, and Government
• Media and Politics
• Law and Justice: The View from Hollywood
• Poverty, Welfare, and Work
• Special Topics in American Politics and Government

Group C (international politics, law, and organizations)

• International Political Economy
• Theories of International Politics
• International Organizations
• International Organizations
• Public International Law
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• American Presidents at War
• International Security Politics
• International Security Politics
• Theory of WarTheory of War
• U.S. Foreign Policy Perspectives
• Humanitarianism
• Global Governance
• European-Atlantic Relations
• Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
• International Relations of East Asia
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict
• International Relations of the Middle East
• African International Politics
• International Relations of Latin America
• Special Topics in International Relations

Group D (research methods)

• Scope and Methods of Political Science
• Visualizing and Modeling Politics

Group E (political thought)

• Major Issues of Western Political Thought I
• Major Issues of Western Political Thought II
• Major Issues of Western Political Thought II
• Twentieth-Century Political Thought
• Freedom and Equality
• American Political Thought
• Freedom in American Thought and Popular Culture
• Special Topics in Political Thought
• Proseminar: Political Science (taken in the junior or senior year)