International Studies – Political Science

International Studies majors are required to demonstrate basic proficiency in a modern foreign language.  This can be accomplished in one of the following ways:

• Completion of the fourth quarter college-level foreign language course
• Proficiency Exam
• AP Language or Literature Exam
• IB Language Exam
• SAT II Language Exam
• Graduation from high school outside of the United States

All eight (8) courses must be 4 units, upper-division and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

Eight (8) upper-division courses must be selected from the following:

• Comparative Politics:
  • POLI 120 – POLI 138D*
• International Relations:
  • POLI 140A – POLI 154ª

A maximum of three (3) courses may be selected from the following subfields:

• American Politics:
  • POLI 100A – POLI 108
• Political Theory:
  • POLI 110A - POLI 119A†
• Policy Analysis:
  • POLI 160AA – POLI 168
• Research Methods:
  • POLI 170 – POLI 181

Notes:
*POLI 120A and POLI 136 will not be accepted prior to Fall 2022.
ªPOLI 142K will not be accepted prior to Fall 2022.
†POLI 113A will not be accepted prior to Fall 2022.

All three (3) courses must be upper-division, 4 units and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

• Courses must be selected from the approved Interdisciplinary Elective Course List
  
  • Note: All courses must be selected from departments outside of the disciplinary focus department.

Course Pre-requisites: Students are responsible for meeting all departmental pre-requisite courses. Please refer to the General Catalog for additional information.

At least three (3) of the eleven (11) Disciplinary Focus and Interdisciplinary Elective courses must focus on one region.

• Note: This requirement is an overlap requirement comprised of courses that count for both the Disciplinary Focus or Interdisciplinary Elective courses and the Regional Requirement.
• Regional Requirement courses may come all from within the Disciplinary Focus, Interdisciplinary Electives, or a combination of the two.
• Possible regions include: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.