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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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Political Science Major


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Degree Requirements


General Education Requirements


First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3


English Composition - Total Credits: 6


Second-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3


Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6


Mathematics - Total Credits: 3


Distribution Requirement: Social Science


  • Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

    Two three 3-credit courses in the humanities and one 3-credit course in fine arts.

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  • Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 9-10


  • and two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must be a lab.
     

Multicultural and International


(see note 2 below)

Additional Degree Requirements


Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Fine Arts - Total Credits: 3

Foreign Languages/Foreign Culture - Total Credits: 6

Electives - Total Credits: 18-20


At least 12 of which must be in upper-division courses.

Total Credits: 120


Note


  1. All political science courses must be completed with a grade of C- or higher to be counted towards the degree program in Political Science.
  2. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

 

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