Department of Political Science

After fulfilling both the general education requirements and the political science major requirements, you need numerous additional credit hours to reach the 124 credit hours required for graduation.  What additional courses should you take?  

First, many students take more than the required number of political science courses.  The only formal limitation on the number of  political science courses is that you can take only two of the 490 seminar series.  The department does not encourage you to take only political science courses.  Your education and career will be better served by taking most of these additional hours outside of political science. 

Second, one strategy is not to declare any minors, or second majors, but simply select courses from a variety of different departments (e.g., a logic course from philosophy, a statistics course from math, a writing course from English, etc.)  Which courses you select will be guided by personal interest, educational goals, and career preparation.  See your academic advisor for suggestions about the latter. 

Third, some students decide to use these additional hours to formally declare one or more minors.  Again, the choice of minors is guided by personal interests, educational goals, and career preparation. Your academic advisor can make recommendations about the latter if you have identified your career goals.

To give you a starting point as you contemplate what additional courses or minors to take, this page simply lists minors that are useful and/or popular. 

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Last update:  2/14/08