BA in Political Science, Public Policy Focus

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

Required

30 credit of upper-division courses in political science distributed as follows:
Three courses (9 credits) in policy-oriented courses from the following:

• State and Urban Policy Problems
• Judicial Politics
• The American Presidency
• Executive Branch Politics
• Legislative Politics
• Legislative Politics
• Political Parties and Interest Groups
• Poverty, Welfare, and Work
• Science, Technology, and Politics
• Issues in Domestic Public Policy
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Post-Soviet Foreign Policy

One policy-oriented proseminar (3 credits):

• Proseminar: Political Science (topic must be policy oriented)

One course (3 credits) 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
• Judicial Politics
• U.S. Constitutional Law and Politics I
• U.S. Constitutional Law and Politics II
• The American Presidency
• Legislative Politics
• Legislative Politics
• Political Parties and Interest Groups
• Public Opinion
• African-American Politics
• Campaigns and Elections
• Women and Politics
• Media, Politics, and Government
• Media and Politics
• Law and Justice: The View from Hollywood
• 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 War
• Theory 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
• One elective upper-division political science course (3 credits).

Six courses (18 credits) in other social sciences and statistics, which must include:

Four required courses:

• Principles of Economics I
• Principles of Economics II
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
• Introduction to Business and Economic Statistics
• Introduction to Statistics in Social Science Business and Economic Statistics I

and two of the following:

• Economic Development
• Industrial Organization
• Government Regulation of the Economy
• Public Finance: Expenditure Programs
• Public Finance: Taxation
• International Trade Theory
• Law and Economics
• Social Problems in American Society
• Evaluation Research
• Youth and Delinquency
• Criminology
• Transnational Crime
• Criminal Law
• The Bill of Rights and Criminal Justice
• Sociology of Complex Organizations
• Class and Inequality in American Society
• Introduction to Computing
• Regression Analysis
• Introduction to Econometrics
• Intermediate Statistics Lab/Packages

12 credits in introductory foreign language and statistics courses is strongly recommended.