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    May 14, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin

Political Science Major


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A minimum of 124 semester hours is required for all undergraduate degrees for graduation. Some majors may require more than 124 credits.

Major Requirements:


Elective Requirements


Students must complete five elective courses, including at least one course from at least three of the four subfield groupings (American Government and Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Comparative Politics)

At least four of the five elective courses must be Political Science courses.

Signature Learning Requirements for Political Science Majors:


  • First Year Seminar
  • Reading and Writing 
  • Oral Communication 
  • Ethics 
  • Quantitative Reasoning (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
  • Religion 
  • Social Science - (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
  • Cultural Pluralism
  • Fine Arts 
  • Natural Science - Students must take a minimum of 6 credit hours of Natural Science courses (the combination of the Natural Science and Society requirement and the Laboratory Science requirement). 
  • Humanities
  • Global Systems 

See Signature Learning   Pathways for a complete listing of applicable cognate courses.

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