Political Science Minor

The Political Science Minor consists of three separate concentrations.  Choose one of the three.

1. Politics and Government Concentration

2. Pre-Law Concentration

3. European Studies Concentration

Politics and Government Concentration (18 semester hours)

Required courses:

POLI 111GN: Principles of Political Science

3 credits

POLI 120GN: American Government

3 credits

POLI ___12 additional credits of POLS 200 level and above classes

12 credits

Total Credit Hours:18
At least six of these credits must be 300 and/or 400 level courses.

Pre-Law Concentration (18 semester hours)

Required courses:

POLI 111GN: Principles of Political Science

3 credits

POLI 120GN: American Government

3 credits

choose two:

POLI 313Courts and the Judicial Process

3 credits

POLI 413American Constitutional Law

3 credits

POLI 416Administrative Law

3 credits

POLI 445International Law and Organization

3 credits

Six additional credits of POLS 200 level or above.

Co-requisites:

ENGL 162GN: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation

3 credits

Choose one (3 credits):

PHIL 221GN: Logic I

3 credits

MATH 100GN: Numbers, Sets and Structures

3 credits

MATH 101GN: Excursions in Mathematics

3 credits

MATH 110/MATH 111GN: General Statistics

3 credits

MATH 129/MATH 130GN: Applied Algebraic Methods with Foundation Mathematics

3 credits

MGMT 211Financial Accounting Fundamentals

3 credits

Choose one (3 credits):

COMM 253GN: Public Speaking

3 credits

THEA 102GN: Acting

3 credits

European Studies Concentration (18 semester hours)

Required courses:

HIST 272GN: Modern European History

3 credits

three of the following:

POLI 332Europe

3 credits

POLI 399European Union Studies

3 credits

POLI 445International Law and Organization

3 credits

POLI 453Modern Western Political Theory

3 credits

two of the following:

HIST 371Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 500-1500

3 credits

HIST 382Modern Britain

3 credits

HIST 473Modern Germany

3 credits

PHIL 318Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche

3 credits

PHIL 353Medieval Philosophy

3 credits

PHIL 356Rationalists of the 17th and 18th Centuries

3 credits

PHIL 357Empiricists of the 17th and 18th Centuries

3 credits

PHIL 418Phenomenology and Existentialism

3 credits

SPAN 444Cultural History of Spain

3 credits

FREN 343French Civilization I

3 credits

or any of the courses in the POLS section not taken for the Political Science requirement for the minor. Nine credits must be at the 300/400 level.

For more information, contact the department at 570-422-3286 or visit Stroud Hall, Room 409 570-422-3286 www.esu.edu/pols.