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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Political Science B.A.
Sub-plan: Business and Politics
Sample Plan: Business and Politics
Total Credits: 117.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 13.0 cr
POL 1001 - American Democracy in a Changing World : 3.0 cr : SOCS
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
Language :5.0 cr
CLA 1001: First Year Experience 1.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 13.0 cr
POL 1201 - Political Ideas : 3.0 cr : HIS, CIV
Language :5.0 cr
LE (Biological Sciences) :4.0 cr
CLA 1002: First Year Experience 1.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
POL 3085 - Quantitative Analysis in Political Science : 4.0 cr : MATH
Language :5.0 cr
LE (Physical Sciences) :4.0 cr
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 16.0 cr
Language :5.0 cr
LE (Environment) :3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
POL 3873W - Global Citizenship and International Ethics : 3.0 cr : CIV, WI
POL 3766 - Political Psychology of Mass Behavior : 3.0 cr : SOCS
LE (Technology and Society) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
POL 4315W - State Governments: Laboratories of Democracy : 3.0 cr : WI
POL 4253 - Modernity and Its Discontents: Late Modern Political Thought : 3.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
POL 4481 - Comparative Political Economy: Governments and Markets : 3.0 cr
POL 3833 - The United States and the Global Economy : 3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
POL 3327 - Suburbs, Stadiums, and Scandals: The Politics of American Cities : 3.0 cr
LE (Arts/Humanities) :3.0 cr
LE (Diversity and Soc Justice US) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr