Semester Requirements
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The American politics minor studies the basic principles and institutions of the American political order and their implications for current political practice. The strengths and limitations of American constitutionalism will be emphasized throughout and contemporary political and policy questions facing the country will be examined.
Required Course:
POLS-110 American Politics
Electives—Choose four of the following:
POLS-200 Law and Society
POLS-250 State and Local Politics
POLS-290 Politics and the Life Sciences
POLS-295 Cyberpolitics
POLS-305 Political Parties and Voting
POLS-310 The Congress
POLS-315 The American Presidency
POLS-320 American Foreign Policy
POLS-345 Politics and Public Policy
POLS-355 Political Leadership
POLS-415 Evolution and Law
POLS-420 Primate Politics
POLS-425 Constitutional Law
POLS-430 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
POLS-435 American Political Thought
POLS-460 Classical Constitutionalism, Liberty and Equality
POLS-465 Modern Constitutionalism, Liberty and Equality
POLS-480 Women in Politics
POLS-485 Politics Through Fiction
POLS-490 Politics Through Film
POLS-525 Special Topics in Political Science
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The American politics minor studies the basic principles and institutions of the American political order and their implications for current political practice. The strengths and limitations of American constitutionalism will be emphasized throughout and contemporary political and policy questions facing the country will be examined.
Electives—Choose five of the following:
0508-484 Environmental Policy
0513-428 Evolution and the Law
0513-449 Special Topics in Political Science
0513-450 State and Local Politics
0513-451 The Congress
0513-452 The American Presidency
0513-453 American Foreign Policy
0513-454 Political Parties and Voting
0513-455 Politics and Public Policy
0513-456 Judicial Process
0513-457 Constitutional Law
0513-458 American Political Thought
0513-460 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
0513-461 Comparative Politics
0513-462 Abraham Lincoln and American Democracy
0513-463 First Amendment, Liberty, and Deliberative Democracy
0513-466 Political Leadership
0513-481 Women in Politics
0513-485 Politics Through Fiction
0513-514 Political Theory