Course Offerings and Major/Minor Requirements

Major Requirements (42 credit hours)

• Productivity; money and public finance; investment; and fiscal integrity (9 hours)
  • Economics 215, 216; Accounting 201
    
• Guarantees and entitlements; distribution of benefits/subsidies/transfer payments; balance between the public and private sectors; government mandates; regulation; and organizations and bureaucracies (6 hours)
  • Political Science 321; 322
    
• Social stability; political process; federalism; law and constitutionalism and political power and corruption (9 hours)
  • Political Science 111, 211
  • Electives: one course from Political Science 311, 312, 313, 314; History 383
    
• Social Perspectives (3 hours)
  • Electives: one course from History 212 or Sociology 216
    
• Problem-solving; inference; and methodological skills (6 hours)
  • Political Science 341 Theory and Methods
  • Electives: one course from Economics 325; Mathematics 140, 340; Psychology 232
    
• Balance between the individual and the state (3 hours)
  • Philosophy 203
    
• Practical experience and development of research skills (6 hours)
  • Interdisciplinary 300 (Internship for 3 credit hours)
  • Interdisciplinary 490 Public Affairs Senior Seminar

NOTE: Major/minor requirements are in addition to the Liberal Arts Essentials (LAE), which are required of all students to graduate.