杜魯門州立大學(xué)

The goals and priorities of Political Science at Truman reflect the liberal arts mission of the University. Students seeking a bachelor’s degree in political science acquire a breadth and a depth of knowledge and be nationally competitive with others in the discipline. Political science graduates are superior in their abilities to synthesize and to analyze material, to conduct research, to speak, to advocate, to write, and to make decisions. Graduates are prepared to enter graduate school in political science, public administration, public policy, and business administration. In addition, the program prepares the student for law school as well as for other graduate and professional programs requiring a liberal arts undergraduate major. Political science graduates should be competent and confident of their abilities to compete nationally for positions of leadership, scholarship, and service and to enter demanding careers in government, politics or public service.

Within the major, students must take a core curriculum as specified under the Major Requirements listed below, which provides them with basic knowledge in important subfields of the discipline. Students seeking a BS degree have one course added to the core curriculum—Principles of Public Administration—since the BS degree is the more applied of the two Political Science degrees and these students need a basic knowledge of public administration.

Students supplement these with electives to allow them to learn about any of a number of topics that interest them or that allow them better to prepare for their intended career or graduate or professional school interests. For example, those interested in law school may be interested in an elective such as Judicial Process or Constitutional Law. Those who are interested in international affairs may take any one of a number of courses in the nations and politics of the world.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:

The Political Science BS major consists of two (2) parts: Required Support and Major Requirements. Each student must complete both parts.

Part I: Required Support: 18 Credits

Fifteen credits from one other discipline, any established and approved University minor, or 15 credits of any coursework from multiple disciplines if approved by the student’s advisor and the Department Chair.

Students may apply up to twelve credits of POL 471 Internship: Political Science toward Required Support and up to three credits of POL 472 Internship Evaluation and Analysis toward Required Support or Political Science electives.

STAT 190 - Basic Statistics Credits: 3 OR
STAT 290 - Statistics
Credits: 3

Part II: Major Requirements: 33 Credits

POL 161 - American National Government Credits: 3
POL 250 - Introduction to International Relations Credits: 3
POL 300 - Political Science Methodology Credits: 3
POL 315 - Principles of Comparative Politics Credits: 3
POL 344 - Principles of Public Administration Credits: 3
POL 345 - Public Policy-Making Credits: 3
POL 460 - Senior Seminar in Political Science Credits: 3
POL 468 - Political Thought Credits: 3
Electives in Political Science: 9 Credits