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Requirements for a Major in Politics

Credits
  • A minimum of 32 credits

Courses

  • One course must be taken in each of the following four subfields:
American politics:
    • 104, American Politics
    • Complex Organizations 204, Poverty in the United States
    • 207, Women and the Law
    • 210, Minorities and the Law
    • Complex Organizations 220, Winners and Losers: Taxation, Social Justice, and Economic Choices
    • 235, Constitutional Law: The Federal System
    • 236, Civil Liberties
    • 244, Urban Politics and Policies
    • 245, Policy Making in America: Congress and the Bureaucracy
    • 250, Politics of Black Urban Reform
    • 266, Environmental Politics in America
Comparative politics:
    • 106, Comparative Politics
    • 202, Politics of Globalization
    • 208, Chinese Politics
    • 213, African Political Systems
    • 228, East Asian Politics
    • 237, European Politics
International politics:
    • 116, World Politics
    • 240, International Political Economy
    • 247, International Law
    • Internationals Relations 270, American Foreign Policy
Political theory:
    • 101, Fundamentals of Politics
    • 111, Self and Political Thought
    • 211, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
    • 212, Modern Political Thought
    • 221, Marx and Marxism
    • 233, Invitation to Feminist Theory
    • Critical Social Thought 250, Introduction to Critical Social Thought (when taught by Professor Cocks)
    • 246, American Political Thought
  • Three courses (12 credits) at the 300 level, which must normally be taken at Mount Holyoke College. No more than 4 credits of 395 may be counted toward this requirement of three courses at the 300 level.
  • A single course at the 200 level offered at Mount Holyoke can be taken at the 300 level with the instructor's permission, provided the student has already taken 8 credits in politics, and provided the instructor and student agree upon additional work.

 

 
Department of Politics at Mount Holyoke
118 Shattuck Hall, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075
413-538-2132

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