Politics Minor
Students in our minor gain a solid grounding in ideas, concepts, and real-world problems and possibilities of politics through a selection of at least six courses.
Course Requirements
The minor requires six courses: one lower-division elective, four upper-division core courses, and one upper-division elective.
This program does not have a letter grade policy.
Lower-Division Courses
Lower-Division Elective
One 5-credit lower-division politics course from POLI 1-POLI 70.
Upper-Division Courses
Students take five upper-division electives: four core courses chosen from two subfields, and one upper-division elective.
Four core courses
Take two courses each from two different subfields below.
Theory
| POLI 105A
/LGST 105A
| Ancient Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105B
/LGST 105B
| Early Modern Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105C
/LGST 105C
| Modern Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105D
/LGST 105D
| Contemporary Political Theory: Modernity and its Discontents | 5 |
U.S. Politics
| POLI 120A
/LGST 120A
| Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics | 5 |
| POLI 120B
/LGST 120B
| Society and Democracy in American Political Development | 5 |
| POLI 120C
/LGST 120C
| State and Capitalism in American Political Development | 5 |
Comparative
Global Politics/International Relations
| POLI 160A | Theories of International and World Politics | 5 |
| POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
| International Law | 5 |
| POLI 160C | Security, Conflict, Violence, War | 5 |
| POLI 160D | The Politics of Global Capitalism | 5 |
Plus one upper-division elective
Take one course numbered POLI 100-189.