Political Science Minor
The Political Science Minor consists of three separate concentrations. Choose one of the three.
1. Politics and Government Concentration
2. Pre-Law Concentration
3. European Studies Concentration
Politics and Government Concentration (18 semester hours)
Required courses:
| POLS 111 | GN: Principles of Political Science | 3 credits |
| POLS 120 | GN: American Government | 3 credits |
| POLS ___ | 12 additional credits of POLS 200 level and above classes | 12 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
At least six of these credits must be 300 and/or 400 level courses.
Pre-Law Concentration (18 semester hours)
Required courses:
| POLS 111 | GN: Principles of Political Science | 3 credits |
| POLS 120 | GN: American Government | 3 credits |
choose two:
| POLS 313 | GE: Courts and the Judicial Process | 3 credits |
| POLS 413 | American Constitutional Law | 3 credits |
| POLS 416 | Administrative Law | 3 credits |
| POLS 445 | International Law and Organization | 3 credits |
Six additional credits of POLS 200 level or above.
Co-requisites:
| ENGL 162 | GN: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation | 3 credits |
Choose one (3 credits):
| PHIL 221 | GN: Logic I | 3 credits |
| MATH 100 | GN: Numbers Sets & Structures | 3 credits |
| MATH 101 | GN: Excursions in Mathematics | 3 credits |
| MATH 110 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods | 3 credits |
| MGT 211 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
Choose one (3 credits):
European Studies Concentration (18 semester hours)
Required courses:
| HIST 272 | GN: Modern European History | 3 credits |
three of the following:
| POLS 332 | GE: Comparative European Government | 3 credits |
| POLS 399 | European Union Studies | 3 credits |
| POLS 445 | International Law and Organization | 3 credits |
| POLS 453 | Modern Western Political Theory | 3 credits |
two of the following:
| HIST 371 | Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 500-1500 | 3 credits |
| HIST 382 | GE: Modern Britain | 3 credits |
| HIST 473 | Modern Germany | 3 credits |
| PHIL 318 | Schopenhauer Kierkegaard Nietz | 3 credits |
| PHIL 353 | Medieval Philosophy | 3 credits |
| PHIL 356 | Rationalists of the 17th and 18th Centuries | 3 credits |
| PHIL 357 | Empiricists of the 17th and 18th Centuries | 3 credits |
| PHIL 418 | Phenomenology and Existentialism | 3 credits |
| MLSP 444 | Cultural History of Spain | 3 credits |
| MLFR 343 | French Civilization I | 3 credits |
or any of the courses in the POLS section not taken for the Political Science requirement for the minor. Nine credits must be at the 300/400 level.
For more information, contact the department at 570-422-3286 or visit Stroud Hall, Room 409 570-422-3286 www.esu.edu/pols.