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Aug 02, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Politics, BA
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Learning Outcomes
Students who graduate with a politics major will be able to demonstrate:
- SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE: Demosntrate knowledge of political institutions and processes in the American government as well in other democracies that have different models of governance. They will be able to analyze political issues and theories and form well-supported conclusions.
- CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING SKILLS: When students graduate they will able to think critically about political concepts and to apply their knowledge by using the major analytic and theoretical frameworks in different subfields of political science.
- CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: When students graduate they will be prepared for active citizenship and demostrate an ongoing interest in national and global poitics.
Students must complete at least 41 units.
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Lower Division
The following lower-division courses are required for the major. Upper Division
Take the Writing in the Discipline Course: American Politics
Take one course in American politics Political Theory
Take one course in political theory International Politics
Take one course in international politics Comparative Politics
Take one course in comparative politics Upper-division Electives
Take two additional 300 or 400-level politics courses. Each course must be at least 3 units. Engaged Learning Course
One elective taken to satisfy the requirements above must have the Engaged Learning designation. Politics Internship courses that satisfy Engaged Learning may be petitioned to count for this category. Note
The department faculty recommend that students taking an upper-division course in American politics complete POL-101 first; for comparative politics complete POL-102 first; for international politics, POL-203 is recommended first; and for political theory, POL-204 is recommended first. The department also recommends that POL 300 be taken in the second year. |
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