Department
of Political Science
Department
of Political Science
PLS 105 Introduction to American Government
ENG 101 English
Composition
OR
COM 103 The Oral Communication Process
MTH 101 Basic College
Mathematics
OR
MTH 111 Elementary Statistics
ART 131 Art
Appreciation
OR
MUS 109 Music Appreciation
OR
THE 131 Introduction to Theater
Your choice ****
Total Course Load***** 15-16 semester hours
* Take one of these courses during the Fall Semester; take the other during the Spring Semester.
** Either of the two Math courses will satisfy the General Education/Math requirement. If you are planning to get a double major or a minor in a department in the Foster College of Business Administration, you will want to take MTH 115 (Techniques of Calculus I) which the College requires for many of its majors and minors.
*** You could substitute a course which satisfies an alternative General Education requirement (e.g., Western Civilization, Human Values Literary, Non-Western, etc). We recommend satisfying the Fine Arts requirement because the range of options in the fall semester is greater than what you will probably see in the spring semester.
****Take any course in which you have an interest-whether or not the course helps meet any General Education requirements. For example, if you want to take a course in American History or Photography or Accounting or whatever, take it.
***** Students who wish to begin with a course load of 12-13 semester hours (instead of 15-16 semester hours) may wish to delete the Elective Course from their schedule.
Assumptions and Considerations:
1. To graduate from Bradley, with a major in Political Science, a student will need to complete 124 semester hours. This means a student will need to take an average of 31 semester hours of course work each year for four years.
2. General Education courses (a total of 40 semester hours of course work) - with the exception of the junior-level composition course - should be completed by the end of the sophomore year.
3. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts Degree or major in a foreign language should consider substituting a foreign language course for either the Math course or the Elective course.
4. Students who wish to do so can combine their course work in freshman English Composition and Western Civilization by enrolling in CIV 111 and CIV 112. Students must complete both courses to satisfy the requirements for freshman English Composition and Western Civilization. Completion of only one semester will not satisfy either requirement.
