Approved Courses from Other Departments  

Effective fall semester 2008, political science majors can select one course from the following department-approved list of courses outside PLSC to count toward the ten-unit major (the tenth course could also be a 300-level PLSC elective). This list is subject to periodic department review. Courses indicated with an asterisk (*) have prerequisites. Students are responsible for meeting any prerequisites prior to registering.

American Studies
AMST 321*    American Immigration and Ethnicity

Anthropology
ANTH 301*    Dependency and Development: An Introduction to the Third World
ANTH 310*    Tribe, Nation, World: The Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 336*    Big Men, Chiefs, and Presidents: The Anthropology of Politics

Criminal Justice
CJ 320*  Fundamentals of Criminal Law
CJ 321*  Fundamentals of Criminal Procedure

Economics
ECON 210*  Economics of the European Union
ECON 211*  Economic Development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
ECON 231*  Law and Economics
ECON 232*  Women and Gender Issues in Economics
ECON 300*  Industrial Organization and Public Policy
ECON 310*  International Trade
ECON 331*  Labor Economics
ECON 332*  Public Economics

Geography
GEOG 320*    Power, Space, and Territory: Geographies of Political Change (same as PLSC 320 and IS 320)
GEOG 345*    Society, Economics and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development (same as ENVR 345 and SOC 345)
GEOG 370*    Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization

History
HIST 212    Civil Rights Movement
HIST 215    United States and the World, Since1945
HIST 341    Politics of Asia-Pacific War Memories
HIST 370*  Land and Power in Palestine/Israel
HIST 391*  Transnational Social Reform

Journalism
JOUR 302*  Public Affairs Reporting
JOUR 303*  Journalism, Law, Ethics
JOUR 311*  Press and Politics

Latin American and Iberian Studies
LAIS 305*  Spanish in Politics and Society

Leadership
LDST 205*  Justice and Civil Society
LDST 303    Leadership in Political Contexts
LDST 304    Social Movements
LDST 308    The Creation of the American Republic (same as PLSC 330)
LDST 357    Analyzing and Making Policy
LDST 378    Statesmanship (same as PLSC 310)
LDST 379    Reason, Rhetoric, and Leadership (same as PLSC 316)
LDST 450*  Ethics and Leadership

Philosophy
PHIL 221    Feminist Political Theories (see also WGSS 221)
PHIL 260    Philosophical Problems in Law and Society
PHIL 269    Ethics, Religion, and the Environment (see also ENVR 269 and REL 269)
PHIL 337    Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 358    Topics in Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 363    Power and Politics
PHIL 364*  Philosophy of Law

Psychology
PSYC 313*  Social Psychology

Religion
RELG 369    Problems in Social Ethics

Rhetoric and Communication Studies
RHCS 343*   Rhetoric and Politics
RHCS 345*   Rhetoric of Terrorism, (In)Security and the State
RHCS 353*   Rhetoric and Law

Sociology
SOC 302*  Social Movements
SOC 309*  Social Problems
SOC 310*  Crime and Justice in Post-Modern Society
SOC 316*  Race & Ethnicity in America
SOC 324*  Law & Society

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 201*   WILL Colloquium: Gender, Race, and Activism
WGSS 302     Women and the Law