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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

Political Science, BA, International Relations Concentration


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Degree Awarded:         Total Credit Hours:
Bachelor of Arts        120
Career Opportunities:
Federal, state, local governments, law firms, public interest groups, law enforcement, corporations
Note(s):
 In order to meet University requirements for graduation, each student must complete a minimum of 45 credit hours of 300/400-level courses.

Modern Language (6 credit hours)


Choose from American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic (ARAB), French (FREN), German (GERM) or Spanish (SPAN) in consultation with academic advisor. All MODL course requirements must be completed in a single language.

  • MODL 101 Credit Hours: 3
  • MODL 102 Credit Hours: 3

Philosophy (3 credit hours)


Choose in consultation with academic advisor.

Modern Language (6 credit hours)


Choose from American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic (ARAB), French (FREN), German (GERM) or Spanish (SPAN) in consultation with academic advisor. All MODL course requirements must be completed in a single language.

  • MODL 201 Credit Hours: 3
  • MODL 202 Credit Hours: 3

Natural Sciences (6 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Natural Science courses.

Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Social/Behavioral courses.

Literature (3 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Literature courses.

Junior Year (30 credit hours)


Political Science Elective (9 credit hours)


Choose 3/400-level courses in consultation with academic advisor. At least 9 of the required POLS Elective credit hours (jr/sr years) must be at the 400-level.

Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 credit hours)


Choose any 200-level or above course from the General Education Curriculum  list of Social/Behavioral courses.

Communication (3 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Communication courses.

Natural Sciences (3 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Natural Science courses.

General Electives (6 credit hours)


Choose in consultation with academic advisor.

Minor (3 credit hours)


Recommended minors are GEOG (world), HIST (modern worlds), ECON, MODL or another academic advisor approved area.

Senior Year (30 credit hours)


Political Science Elective (12 credit hours)


Choose 3/400-level courses in consultation with academic advisor. At least 9 of the required POLS Elective credit hours (jr/sr years) must be at the 400-level.

Fine Arts (3 credit hours)


Choose from the General Education Curriculum  list of Fine Arts courses.

Minor (15 credit hours)


Recommended minors are Geography (world), History (modern world), ECON, MODL or another advisor approved area.

General Education Curriculum


English
(6 cr)
Mathematics
(6 cr)
Natural Sciences
(9 cr)
Social/Behavioral Sci
(6 cr)
ENGL 101 
ENGL 102  
STAT 214 
and
MATH 102  or MATH 105  
Choose from the
Gen Ed Course List  
Choose from the
Gen Ed Course List  
History
(3 cr)
Fine Arts
(3 cr)
Communication
(3 cr)
Literature
(3 cr)
HIST 101   Choose from the
Gen Ed Course List  
Choose from the
Gen Ed Course List  
Choose from the
Gen Ed Course List  

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