2015-2016 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Political Science (GPS)
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This plan outlines a four-year path to graduation. You are expected to satisfy all “success marker” courses, grades, and GPAs as specified. For part-time students and students needing to complete background material, this schedule represents the order in which courses should be taken. This suggested plan to four-year graduation does not replace regular advising appointments. Some course offerings may change.
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Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; complete ENG 1100 with C or better
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; complete one MTH course; complete one language course; complete PLS 2120 or PLS 2220
Term Four
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 2 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 3 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- Intermediate Language Course (2020 level) Credit Hour(s): 3*
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- ENG 2100 - Research Writing and Argumentation Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; complete ENG 2100 with C or better; complete PLS 2120 and PLS 2220
Term Five
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 1 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 2 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS 3100 - Quantitative Methods in Political Science Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Term Six
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 3 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PHL 3000 - Critical Thinking Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s):3
- SCI Course - Wright State Science Course Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; complete 20 upper-level credits.
Term Seven
- PLS Elective - Political Science 4000-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE General - Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Term Eight
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better.
Note(s):
*Languages include Arabic (ARA), American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese (CHI), French (FR), German (GER), Greek (GR), Italian (ITA), Japanese (JPN), Latin (LAT), Russian (RUS), and Spanish (SPN).
Program Description
Students of political science study governments: how they evolve, why they exist, the forms and social functions they assume, why they change, and who controls them. To understand governments, students of political science also study politics: how people behave in their relationship to government, what they do to influence government, how government attempts to influence people’s behavior and beliefs about what it does. Students of politics also must appreciate how cultural, historical, and economic forces affect the evolution of governments and mass political behavior.
The Bachelor of Arts program in political science focuses on four areas of instruction:
- American government, including legislative and executive institutions, political parties and interest groups, public administration, public opinion and elections, and state and urban government;
- public law, including constitutional law, criminal justice, civil liberties, and environmental law;
- International relations and comparative politics, including American foreign policy; European and Latin American governments; the Middle East, Russian, and Asian governments; African politics; national security policy; terrorism; and developing political systems;
- political philosophy, political ideologies, the history of political thought, political theory, and political analysis; and quantitative methods of political research.
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