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Program Minimum Units
30 Units
University Minimum Units
18 Units
Interests
Data and Information Sciences, Ethics, Government, Politics & Current Events, International Relations, Studying the Past
Academic Areas
Mathematics & Data Sciences, Social Sciences, Law

Overview

Students are encouraged to declare the minor by autumn quarter of the senior year. Students must complete a declaration form, available on the Political Science website opens in a new tab and in the Encina Hall West 100 department office. The student should submit the declaration form during a meeting with the Political Science undergraduate administrator and declare on Axess. For additional information, students may visit the Political Science website opens in a new tab or office or call (650) 723-1608.

Requirements

Core Program Requirements

Introductory Course - 5 Units

Complete all of the following course(s):
POLISCI 1

The Science of Politics

4-5 Units

25 Units of Political Science Coursework

Twenty units in a Path of your choice. All courses completed toward the Path must be in Political Science at the 100-level or above.

Five units of additional Political Science coursework, which may include no more than five units of directed reading and/or no more than five units of coursework from outside the Political Science Department (pre-approved or petitioned opens in a new tab courses).

The five paths from which to choose are:

  1. Elections, Representation, and Governance

  2. Justice and Law

  3. International Relations

  4. Political Economy and Development

  5. Data Science

*Paths requirements listed in Depth of Discipline

Depth in Disclipline

Elections, Representation, and Governance

Twenty units in a Path of your choice. All courses completed toward the Path must be in Political Science at the 100-level or above.

Five units of additional Political Science coursework, which may include no more than five units of directed reading and/or no more than five units of coursework from outside the Political Science Department (pre-approved or petitioned opens in a new tab courses).

Complete any of the following requirements:
PoliSci Courses
Earn at least 20 units in the following course(s):
POLISCI 20Q

Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past

3 Units
POLISCI 25N

The US Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective

3 Units
POLISCI 34N

Nationalism

3 Units
POLISCI 102

American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy

5 Units
POLISCI 104G

War and Society

4-5 Units
POLISCI 110D

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 110Y

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 115

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

5 Units
POLISCI 120B

Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections

5 Units
POLISCI 120C

American Political Institutions in Uncertain Times

5 Units
POLISCI 121L

Racial-Ethnic Politics in US

5 Units
POLISCI 123D

The Politics of American Courts

5 Units
POLISCI 124A

The American West

5 Units
POLISCI 124L

The Psychology of Communication About Politics in America

4-5 Units
POLISCI 125M

Latino Social Movements

5 Units
POLISCI 125P

The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Press

4-5 Units
POLISCI 127

Controversies in American Public Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 130

Liberalism and its Critics

5 Units
POLISCI 131L

Modern Political Thought: Machiavelli to Marx and Mill

5 Units
POLISCI 132A

The Ethics of Elections

5 Units
POLISCI 134L

Introduction to Environmental Ethics

4-5 Units
POLISCI 135

Citizenship

5 Units
POLISCI 134P

Contemporary Moral Problems

4-5 Units
POLISCI 140P

The Erosion of Democracy

5 Units
POLISCI 143C

The Politics of Internet Abuse

5 Units
POLISCI 145B

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Law, Policy, and Institutions

3 Units
POLISCI 147

Comparative Democratic Development

5 Units
POLISCI 147B

Gender, Identity, and Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 148

Chinese Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 149T

Middle Eastern Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 150

The 2026 US election: How to Understand and Participate

4 Units
POLISCI 150A

Data Science for Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 157

Politics of AI

4-5 Units
POLISCI 158

AI & Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 213E

Introduction to European Studies

5 Units
POLISCI 220R

The Presidency

5 Units
POLISCI 222F

Seminar on Political Change

3-5 Units
POLISCI 223

Gender & U.S. Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 223A

Public Opinion and American Democracy

5 Units
POLISCI 224

Identity

5 Units
POLISCI 227C

Money in Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 227F

The American Electorate in the Trump Era

3-5 Units
POLISCI 227R

Russian Politics Since 1991

3-5 Units
POLISCI 228C

Law and Politics of Bureaucracy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 229

Directed Reading and Research in American Politics

1-10 Units
POLISCI 234

Democratic Theory

5 Units
POLISCI 242G

Political Mobilization and Democratic Breakthroughs

3-5 Units
POLISCI 241

The Political Economy of China: Policy and Development from Antiquity to Revolution

3-5 Units
POLISCI 244

Democracy and Dictatorship

5 Units
POLISCI 244A

Authoritarian Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 244U

Political Culture

3-5 Units
POLISCI 245R

Politics in Modern Iran

5 Units
POLISCI 246H

Populism in the Americas

4-5 Units
POLISCI 247G

Governance and Poverty

3-5 Units
POLISCI 248S

Latin American Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 249R

The Political Economy of Tax Evasion

5 Units
POLISCI 327C

Law of Democracy

3 Units
POLISCI 335T

Representation and Democracy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 20N

The American Electorate in the Trump Era

3 Units
POLISCI 31N

Political Freedom: Rights, Justice, and Democracy in the Western Tradition

3 Units
POLISCI 72

Policy, Politics and the 2020 Elections: What 2020 Means for Future Campaigns and Elections

2 Units
POLISCI 75

The 2018 Midterm Election: Making Your Voice Heard

2-3 Units
POLISCI 104

Introduction to Comparative Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 120Z

What's Wrong with American Government? An Institutional Approach

4 Units
POLISCI 121

Political Power in American Cities

5 Units
POLISCI 125S

Chicano/Latino Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 128F

The Constitution: A Short History

3 Units
POLISCI 128S

The Constitution: A Brief History

5 Units
POLISCI 143S

Comparative Corruption

3 Units
POLISCI 147P

The Politics of Inequality

5 Units
POLISCI 217A

American Foreign Policy: Interests, Values, and Process

5 Units
POLISCI 220

Urban Policy Research Lab

5 Units
POLISCI 220C

The Politics of the Administrative State

3-5 Units
POLISCI 222

The Political Psychology of Intolerance

5 Units
POLISCI 222S

Topics in Constitutional History

5 Units
POLISCI 226A

The Changing Face of America

4-5 Units
POLISCI 226T

The Politics of Education

3-5 Units
POLISCI 240A

Democratic Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 241B

Special Topics: Comparative Political Economy (Latin America)

5 Units
POLISCI 246P

The Dynamics of Change in Africa

4-5 Units
POLISCI 340A

Democratic Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 344

Politics and Geography

3-5 Units
or
Pre-Approved Non-POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
COLLEGE 110

The Spirit of Democracy

4 Units
ECON 155

Climate change and global inequality

5 Units
EDUC 197

Gender and Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives

3-4 Units
HISTORY 87

The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

3 Units
HISTORY 153

Creation of the Constitution

5 Units
HISTORY 181B

Making the Modern Middle East

5 Units
HISTORY 158C

History of Higher Education in the U.S.

3-5 Units
HISTORY 204G

War and Society

4-5 Units
HISTORY 252

Originalism and the American Constitution

5 Units
HISTORY 261G

Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History

5 Units
LAW 2519

Water Law and Policy

3 Units
MS&E 193

Technology and National Security

3-4 Units
OSPFLOR 78

EU Politics and Crisis

5 Units
OSPOXFRD 22

British Politics Past and Present

4-5 Units
OSPOXFRD 24

Layered Landscapes: Traces of the British Past

4-5 Units
OSPOXFRD 36

Creating English Democracy

4-5 Units
OSPPARIS 32

French History and Politics: Understanding the Present through the Past

5 Units
OSPPARIS 122X

Europe and its Challenges Today

3 Units
OSPSANTG 116X

Contemporary Chilean Political Culture

5 Units
PUBLPOL 132

The Politics of Policy Making

3 Units
PUBLPOL 135

Regional Politics and Decision Making in Silicon Valley and the Greater Bay Area

4 Units
PUBLPOL 154

Politics and Policy in California

5 Units
PUBLPOL 156

Health Care Policy and Reform

5 Units
PUBLPOL 209

What is Public about Public Lands - Who and How to Manage.

3 Units
PUBLPOL 353A

Science and Technology Policy

5 Units
SIW 105

Education Policy

5 Units
SIW 107

Civil Rights Law

5 Units
SIW 123

Navigating Divided Government

5 Units
SIW 121

Inside Modern Campaigns: How Elections are Won and Lost

5 Units
SIW 156

Washington Policymaking: A USER'S GUIDE

5 Units
SOC 118

Social Movements and Collective Action

4 Units
SOC 136

Sociology of Law

4 Units
SOC 145

Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA

4 Units
URBANST 112

The Urban Underclass

5 Units
ANTHRO 182D

Knowledge and Violence in the Middle East

4-5 Units
COMM 130N

The idea of a free press

3-4 Units
CSRE 220

Public Policy Institute

1-2 Units
ECON 116

American Economic History

5 Units
EDUC 220D

History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations

3-5 Units
FEMGEN 202

Global Feminisms

4-5 Units
HISTORY 4

Introduction to Geospatial Humanities

3-5 Units
HISTORY 152

History of American Law

5 Units
HISTORY 288

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

4-5 Units
HUMBIO 120

Health Care in America: An Introduction to U.S. Health Policy

4 Units
HUMBIO 129S

Global Public Health

3 Units
HUMBIO 173

Science, Innovation and the Law

5 Units
OSPBER 115X

The German Economy: Past and Present

4-5 Units
OSPCPTWN 69

Comparatively Assessing South Africa's Transition to Democracy: Past, Present and Future

3 Units
OSPFLOR 43

Machiavelli

3-4 Units
PHIL 179W

Du Bois and Democracy

4 Units
SIW 106

Criminal Justice Policy

5 Units
SIW 124

The American Presidency: From TR to Nixon

5 Units
ETHICSOC 135

Citizenship

5 Units
THINK 47

Inventing Government: Ancient and Modern

4 Units
THINK 51

The Spirit of Democracy

4 Units

Justice and Law

Complete any of the following requirements:
POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
POLISCI 21Q

The Politics of Status, Symbols, and Inequality

3 Units
POLISCI 31

Democracy and Disagreement

1-2 Units
POLISCI 32Q

The Politics of the Apocalypse

3 Units
POLISCI 102

American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy

5 Units
POLISCI 103

Justice

4-5 Units
POLISCI 114D

Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

3-5 Units
POLISCI 123D

The Politics of American Courts

5 Units
POLISCI 125P

The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Press

4-5 Units
POLISCI 126

Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom

3-5 Units
POLISCI 127A

Finance, Corporations, and Society

4 Units
POLISCI 130

Liberalism and its Critics

5 Units
POLISCI 130T

Culture Wars: US Religion and Politics Since 1920

4 Units
POLISCI 131L

Modern Political Thought: Machiavelli to Marx and Mill

5 Units
POLISCI 132

Philosophy of Work: Labor and the Good Life

5 Units
POLISCI 132A

The Ethics of Elections

5 Units
POLISCI 133

Ethics and Politics of Public Service

3-5 Units
POLISCI 134

Ethics for Activists

5 Units
POLISCI 134L

Introduction to Environmental Ethics

4-5 Units
POLISCI 134P

Contemporary Moral Problems

4-5 Units
POLISCI 135

Citizenship

5 Units
POLISCI 136

Contemporary Muslim Political Thought

3-4 Units
POLISCI 136R

Introduction to Global Justice

4 Units
POLISCI 137

Philosophy of Law: Protest, Punishment, and Racial Justice

4 Units
POLISCI 137A

Political Philosophy: The Social Contract Tradition

4 Units
POLISCI 145B

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Law, Policy, and Institutions

3 Units
POLISCI 182

Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change

5 Units
POLISCI 223

Gender & U.S. Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 228C

Law and Politics of Bureaucracy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 228R

Encountering the Stranger

3-5 Units
POLISCI 230A

Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought

3-5 Units
POLISCI 231

High-Stakes Politics: Case Studies in Political Philosophy, Institutions, and Interests

3-5 Units
POLISCI 231A

Democracy Ancient and Modern: From Politics to Political Theory

3-5 Units
POLISCI 231H

Philosophical Encounters: Europe and East Asia

3-5 Units
POLISCI 231R

Themes in Political Philosophy: Nature

5 Units
POLISCI 232T

The Dialogue of Democracy

4-5 Units
POLISCI 233E

Postwar Paradigms of Injustice

2-3 Units
POLISCI 233G

What Was the University?

5 Units
POLISCI 234

Democratic Theory

5 Units
POLISCI 234P

Deliberative Democracy and its Critics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 234R

Deadly Bands: Introduction to the Political Problem of Violent Male Groups

3-5 Units
POLISCI 234S

The Political Theory of Progress Reconsidered

5 Units
POLISCI 235A

From Cold War to New Cold War: Politics and Political Theory in Contemporary China

3-5 Units
POLISCI 235B

Political Memory and Democratic Citizenship

3-5 Units
POLISCI 235M

Cold War Political Theory: From the Center to the Peripheries

5 Units
POLISCI 235N

Political Thought in Modern Asia

3-5 Units
POLISCI 235U

Liberalism and Populism in the American Political Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 236

Philanthropy for Sustainable Development

4-5 Units
POLISCI 237

Varieties of Conservatism in America

5 Units
POLISCI 237L

Liberty, Tyranny, and Resistance in the History of Political Thought

5 Units
POLISCI 237R

How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying

3 Units
POLISCI 238R

Ancient Greek Rationality, Public and Private

3-5 Units
POLISCI 238T

Designing Democracy: Constitutional Crises, Change, and Continuity

5 Units
POLISCI 239

Directed Reading and Research in Political Theory

1-10 Units
POLISCI 247C

Classical Leadership

3 Units
POLISCI 327C

Law of Democracy

3 Units
POLISCI 333M

Research and Methods in Political Theory

3-5 Units
POLISCI 335T

Representation and Democracy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 337M

Hannah Arendt

3-5 Units
POLISCI 338B

Unequal Relationships

2-4 Units
POLISCI 432R

Selections in Modern Political Thought

3-5 Units
POLISCI 31N

Political Freedom: Rights, Justice, and Democracy in the Western Tradition

3 Units
POLISCI 31Q

Justice and Cities

3 Units
POLISCI 122

Introduction to American Law

3-5 Units
POLISCI 128F

The Constitution: A Short History

3 Units
POLISCI 128S

The Constitution: A Brief History

5 Units
POLISCI 133Z

Ethics and Politics in Public Service

4 Units
POLISCI 134E

Universal Basic Income: The Philosophy Behind the Proposal

3 Units
POLISCI 211A

Special Topics: Humanizing War

5 Units
POLISCI 221A

American Political Development, 1865-present

3-5 Units
POLISCI 222S

Topics in Constitutional History

5 Units
POLISCI 225L

Law and the New Political Economy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 232

The Science and Politics of Apocalypse

3-4 Units
POLISCI 226A

The Changing Face of America

4-5 Units
POLISCI 230

Political Theology

3-5 Units
POLISCI 234N

The Concept of Society from Marx to Zuckerberg

5 Units
POLISCI 233

Justice and Cities

5 Units
POLISCI 235C

Misinformation and Democracy: Past and Present

5 Units
or
Pre-Approved Non-POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
AFRICAAM 170

Black Marxism: Race, Class, and Liberation

3 Units
BUSGEN 143

Finance, Corporations, and Society

4 Units
HISTORY 204G

War and Society

4-5 Units
HISTORY 252

Originalism and the American Constitution

5 Units
INTLPOL 280

Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal Tribunals

3-5 Units
INTNLREL 140A

International Law and International Relations

5 Units
LAW 2519

Water Law and Policy

3 Units
OSPCPTWN 45

Transitional Justice and Transformation Debates in South Africa

5 Units
OSPFLOR 12

Constituting a Republic: Machiavelli, Madison, and Modern Issues

3 Units
OSPFLOR 65

Exclusion/Inclusion Processes of Migrants in Italian Society

5 Units
OSPOXFRD 24

Layered Landscapes: Traces of the British Past

4-5 Units
OSPSANTG 20

Comparative Law & Society: Conflicts in the Structuring of Democratic Polities across Latin America

4-5 Units
PHIL 2

Introduction to Moral Philosophy

5 Units
PHIL 175W

Philosophy of Law: Protest, Punishment, and Racial Justice

4 Units
PUBLPOL 106

Law and Economics

4-5 Units
PUBLPOL 132

The Politics of Policy Making

3 Units
RELIGST 208

Women of the Movement

3-5 Units
SIW 105

Education Policy

5 Units
SIW 107

Civil Rights Law

5 Units
SIW 123

Navigating Divided Government

5 Units
SOC 136

Sociology of Law

4 Units
URBANST 112

The Urban Underclass

5 Units
COMM 130N

The idea of a free press

3-4 Units
CSRE 220

Public Policy Institute

1-2 Units
EDUC 220D

History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations

3-5 Units
FEMGEN 202

Global Feminisms

4-5 Units
HISTORY 239B

Reparations in Law and History

5 Units
HISTORY 206P

Police Power in World History

4-5 Units
HISTORY 152

History of American Law

5 Units
HUMBIO 173

Science, Innovation and the Law

5 Units
OSPFLOR 43

Machiavelli

3-4 Units
OSPOXFRD 18

Making Public Policy: An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

4-5 Units
PHIL 179W

Du Bois and Democracy

4 Units
SIW 106

Criminal Justice Policy

5 Units
THINK 19

Rules of War

4 Units
THINK 47

Inventing Government: Ancient and Modern

4 Units

International Relations

Complete any of the following requirements:
POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
POLISCI 51N

International Relations in Science Fiction

3 Units
POLISCI 79

Security Issues in the Middle East

1 Units
POLISCI 101

Introduction to International Relations

4-5 Units
POLISCI 110C

America and the World Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 110D

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 110X

America and the World Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 110Y

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 111

The Politics of Climate Change

5 Units
POLISCI 113

Understanding Russia: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order

5 Units
POLISCI 114D

Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

3-5 Units
POLISCI 114S

International Security in a Changing World

5 Units
POLISCI 115

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

5 Units
POLISCI 116F

Fundamentals of Arab Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 116M

Global Futures: History, Statecraft, Systems

3-5 Units
POLISCI 218P

U.S. Relations with Iran

5 Units
POLISCI 119

SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES LAB: MODELS OF ISRAELI-ARAB COOPERATION & PATHWAYS TO PEACE

1-3 Units
POLISCI 136R

Introduction to Global Justice

4 Units
POLISCI 143C

The Politics of Internet Abuse

5 Units
POLISCI 147

Comparative Democratic Development

5 Units
POLISCI 249S

Islam, Iran, and the West

5 Units
POLISCI 211N

Nuclear Strategy, Law, and Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 212R

War as an Instrument of Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 215B

Israel, the Middle East and Nuclear Weapons

4 Units
POLISCI 217

The World and America

5 Units
POLISCI 219

Directed Reading and Research in International Relations

1-10 Units
POLISCI 235

Chinese Political Thought: 1895-2021

3-5 Units
POLISCI 235M

Cold War Political Theory: From the Center to the Peripheries

5 Units
POLISCI 237

Varieties of Conservatism in America

5 Units
POLISCI 244C

Wealth of Nations

3-5 Units
POLISCI 248

Political Economy of Conflict

5 Units
POLISCI 248D

China in the Global Economy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 312

A New Cold War? Great Power Relations in the 21st Century

3-5 Units
POLISCI 10N

International Organizations and the World Order

3 Units
POLISCI 43Q

Immigration Crisis? Policy Dilemmas in the US and Europe

3 Units
POLISCI 101Z

Introduction to International Relations

4 Units
POLISCI 110G

Governing the Global Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 115E

Japan & the World: Innovation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Int'l Security Challenges

3-5 Units
POLISCI 116

The International History of Nuclear Weapons

5 Units
POLISCI 116A

European Security Since World War Two

4-5 Units
POLISCI 210A

Special Topics: Solving Global Challenges

5 Units
POLISCI 211A

Special Topics: Humanizing War

5 Units
POLISCI 211B

International Cooperation and Institutions

4 Units
POLISCI 213

US-Russia Relations After the Cold War

2 Units
POLISCI 213A

Russia and the West

5 Units
POLISCI 214R

Challenges and Dilemmas in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 215A

Special Topics: State-Society Relations in the Contemporary Arab World-Key Concepts and Debates

5 Units
POLISCI 217A

American Foreign Policy: Interests, Values, and Process

5 Units
POLISCI 218T

Politics of Insurgency, Terrorism and Civil War

5 Units
POLISCI 242

Foreign Policy Decision Making in Comparative Perspective

3-5 Units
or
Pre-Approved Non-POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
AFRICAST 111

Education for All? The Global and Local in Public Policy Making in Africa

3-5 Units
AFRICAST 112

AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa

3-5 Units
ANTHRO 337

The Politics of Humanitarianism

5 Units
ECON 106

World Food Economy

3-5 Units
EPS 194

Technology, International Security, and Sustainability

3-4 Units
HISTORY 102

The Modern International System

5 Units
HISTORY 106A

Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

5 Units
HISTORY 106B

Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

5 Units
HISTORY 261G

Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History

5 Units
HISTORY 288

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

4-5 Units
INTLPOL 217

The Future of Global Cooperation

3-4 Units
INTLPOL 280

Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal Tribunals

3-5 Units
INTNLREL 103F

Introduction to Modern Military History

3-5 Units
INTNLREL 123

The Future of the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities

5 Units
INTNLREL 140A

International Law and International Relations

5 Units
INTNLREL 140C

The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War

5 Units
INTNLREL 142

Challenging the Status Quo: Innovation in the Public Sector

3-5 Units
INTNLREL 182

The Great War

5 Units
INTLPOL 219

Intelligence and National Security

3 Units
INTLPOL 244

U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia

4 Units
INTLPOL 246

China's Foreign Policies: Objectives, Instruments, and Impacts

4 Units
MS&E 93Q

Nuclear Weapons, Energy, Proliferation, and Terrorism

3 Units
MS&E 193

Technology and National Security

3-4 Units
OSPBER 77

Understanding Intl' Politics Today: From the German Philosophers to Modern Social Science

3 Units
OSPBER 82

Globalization and Germany

3 Units
OSPBER 126X

A People's Union? Money, Markets, and Identity in the EU

3 Units
OSPCPTWN 10

Climate Change and Political Violence

4 Units
OSPCPTWN 31

Political Economy of Foreign Aid

3 Units
OSPFLOR 65

Exclusion/Inclusion Processes of Migrants in Italian Society

5 Units
OSPPARIS 122X

Europe and its Challenges Today

3 Units
OSPSANTG 129X

Latin America in the International System

4-5 Units
SIW 119

U. S. and Europe: Cooperation or Competition?

5 Units
SOC 111

State and Society in Korea

4-5 Units
SOC 117A

China Under Mao

5 Units
THINK 19

Rules of War

4 Units

Political Economy and Development

Complete any of the following requirements:
POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
POLISCI 25N

The US Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective

3 Units
POLISCI 46N

Contemporary African Politics

3 Units
POLISCI 101

Introduction to International Relations

4-5 Units
POLISCI 101Z

Introduction to International Relations

4 Units
POLISCI 102

American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy

5 Units
POLISCI 103

Justice

4-5 Units
POLISCI 104

Introduction to Comparative Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 110C

America and the World Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 110D

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 110G

Governing the Global Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 110X

America and the World Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 110Y

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 114D

Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

3-5 Units
POLISCI 115E

Japan & the World: Innovation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Int'l Security Challenges

3-5 Units
POLISCI 116

The International History of Nuclear Weapons

5 Units
POLISCI 116F

Fundamentals of Arab Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 218P

U.S. Relations with Iran

5 Units
POLISCI 120B

Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections

5 Units
POLISCI 121

Political Power in American Cities

5 Units
POLISCI 121L

Racial-Ethnic Politics in US

5 Units
POLISCI 122

Introduction to American Law

3-5 Units
POLISCI 124L

The Psychology of Communication About Politics in America

4-5 Units
POLISCI 125M

Latino Social Movements

5 Units
POLISCI 125S

Chicano/Latino Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 127

Controversies in American Public Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 127A

Finance, Corporations, and Society

4 Units
POLISCI 31Q

Justice and Cities

3 Units
POLISCI 137A

Political Philosophy: The Social Contract Tradition

4 Units
POLISCI 141

Political Economy of Development

5 Units
POLISCI 143S

Comparative Corruption

3 Units
POLISCI 147

Comparative Democratic Development

5 Units
POLISCI 147B

Gender, Identity, and Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 148

Chinese Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 249S

Islam, Iran, and the West

5 Units
POLISCI 149T

Middle Eastern Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 153

Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory

4-5 Units
POLISCI 168

Inventing Nations: Theories and Histories of Nationalism

5 Units
POLISCI 153Z

Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory

4 Units
POLISCI 204E

Totalitarianism

4-5 Units
POLISCI 210A

Special Topics: Solving Global Challenges

5 Units
POLISCI 213E

Introduction to European Studies

5 Units
POLISCI 220

Urban Policy Research Lab

5 Units
POLISCI 220C

The Politics of the Administrative State

3-5 Units
POLISCI 220R

The Presidency

5 Units
POLISCI 221A

American Political Development, 1865-present

3-5 Units
POLISCI 222P

Creating the American Republic

4-5 Units
POLISCI 223

Gender & U.S. Politics

5 Units
POLISCI 225L

Law and the New Political Economy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 226

Superpower California: The Indispensable State

5 Units
POLISCI 231

High-Stakes Politics: Case Studies in Political Philosophy, Institutions, and Interests

3-5 Units
POLISCI 232

The Science and Politics of Apocalypse

3-4 Units
POLISCI 232T

The Dialogue of Democracy

4-5 Units
POLISCI 230

Political Theology

3-5 Units
POLISCI 233R

Modern Islamic Political Thought

5 Units
POLISCI 234P

Deliberative Democracy and its Critics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 236

Philanthropy for Sustainable Development

4-5 Units
POLISCI 236S

Philanthropy for Sustainable Development

4-5 Units
POLISCI 235U

Liberalism and Populism in the American Political Economy

5 Units
POLISCI 238R

Ancient Greek Rationality, Public and Private

3-5 Units
POLISCI 241

The Political Economy of China: Policy and Development from Antiquity to Revolution

3-5 Units
POLISCI 241K

Tongues of Power: Language in Political Societies

3-5 Units
POLISCI 241B

Special Topics: Comparative Political Economy (Latin America)

5 Units
POLISCI 241S

Spatial Approaches to Social Science

5 Units
POLISCI 241T

Political Economy of Gender

5 Units
POLISCI 242G

Political Mobilization and Democratic Breakthroughs

3-5 Units
POLISCI 243

Political Economy of Latin America

5 Units
POLISCI 243P

State and Society in Modern Southeast Asia

3-5 Units
POLISCI 244

Democracy and Dictatorship

5 Units
POLISCI 244A

Authoritarian Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 244C

Wealth of Nations

3-5 Units
POLISCI 244D

Societal Collapse

5 Units
POLISCI 244H

What Future for Democracy? Turkey's Experience in a Comparative Perspective

4-5 Units
POLISCI 244U

Political Culture

3-5 Units
POLISCI 245C

The Logics of Violence: Rebels, Criminal Groups and the State

3-5 Units
POLISCI 245F

States and Regimes

3-5 Units
POLISCI 245R

Politics in Modern Iran

5 Units
POLISCI 246

Immigration and Citizenship: The American Experience.

5 Units
POLISCI 246A

Paths to the Modern World: The West in Comparative Perspective

3-5 Units
POLISCI 246H

Populism in the Americas

4-5 Units
POLISCI 247

State, Capital, and Markets: Global History of Modern Finance from the Renaissance to Bretton Woods

5 Units
POLISCI 247A

Games Developing Nations Play

3-5 Units
POLISCI 247C

Classical Leadership

3 Units
POLISCI 247G

Governance and Poverty

3-5 Units
POLISCI 247T

Gender and Development

3-5 Units
POLISCI 248

Political Economy of Conflict

5 Units
POLISCI 248D

China in the Global Economy

3-5 Units
POLISCI 248S

Latin American Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 249

Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics

1-10 Units
POLISCI 249R

The Political Economy of Tax Evasion

5 Units
POLISCI 271

Education Policy in the United States

3 Units
POLISCI 312

A New Cold War? Great Power Relations in the 21st Century

3-5 Units
POLISCI 327C

Law of Democracy

3 Units
POLISCI 344

Politics and Geography

3-5 Units
POLISCI 43Q

Immigration Crisis? Policy Dilemmas in the US and Europe

3 Units
or
Pre-Approved Non-POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
AFRICAST 111

Education for All? The Global and Local in Public Policy Making in Africa

3-5 Units
AFRICAST 112

AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa

3-5 Units
ANTHRO 337

The Politics of Humanitarianism

5 Units
BUSGEN 143

Finance, Corporations, and Society

4 Units
CHINA 112

Rebels with a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 116

Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective

3-5 Units
ECON 1

Principles of Economics

5 Units
ECON 50

Economic Analysis I

5 Units
ECON 51

Economic Analysis II

5 Units
ECON 52

Economic Analysis III

5 Units
ECON 102A

Introduction to Statistical Methods (Postcalculus) for Social Scientists

5 Units
ECON 102B

Applied Econometrics

5 Units
ECON 106

World Food Economy

3-5 Units
ECON 113

Economics of Innovation

5 Units
ECON 116

American Economic History

5 Units
ECON 155

Climate change and global inequality

5 Units
EDUC 197

Gender and Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives

3-4 Units
EDUC 383

The Politics of Education Policy

3 Units
GEP 160

Environmental Economic Theory

5 Units
HISTORY 87

The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

3 Units
HISTORY 97S

Between Empires: Modern History of Taiwan

5 Units
HISTORY 106A

Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

5 Units
HISTORY 106B

Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

5 Units
HISTORY 181B

Making the Modern Middle East

5 Units
HISTORY 279

Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2014

4-5 Units
HUMBIO 129S

Global Public Health

3 Units
ILAC 384

Nationalism, Cultural and Political

3-5 Units
INTLPOL 214A

The Politics of Migrant Exclusion

3 Units
INTLPOL 244

U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia

4 Units
INTLPOL 246

China's Foreign Policies: Objectives, Instruments, and Impacts

4 Units
INTNLREL 123

The Future of the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities

5 Units
INTNLREL 140C

The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War

5 Units
INTNLREL 142

Challenging the Status Quo: Innovation in the Public Sector

3-5 Units
MS&E 180

Organizations: Theory and Management

4 Units
OSPBER 115X

The German Economy: Past and Present

4-5 Units
OSPBER 79

Political Economy of Germany in Europe: an Historical-Comparative Perspective

4-5 Units
OSPBER 126X

A People's Union? Money, Markets, and Identity in the EU

3 Units
OSPCPTWN 10

Climate Change and Political Violence

4 Units
OSPCPTWN 31

Political Economy of Foreign Aid

3 Units
OSPCPTWN 69

Comparatively Assessing South Africa's Transition to Democracy: Past, Present and Future

3 Units
OSPFLOR 64

Colonial Heritage, Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Migrations, Multiculturalism

5 Units
OSPFLOR 78

EU Politics and Crisis

5 Units
OSPFLOR 92

No Planet B: Class, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice

3 Units
OSPOXFRD 18

Making Public Policy: An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

4-5 Units
OSPOXFRD 36

Creating English Democracy

4-5 Units
OSPPARIS 32

French History and Politics: Understanding the Present through the Past

5 Units
OSPSANTG 116X

Contemporary Chilean Political Culture

5 Units
PUBLPOL 106

Law and Economics

4-5 Units
SIW 103

Economic Policy

5 Units
SOC 111

State and Society in Korea

4-5 Units
SOC 117A

China Under Mao

5 Units
SOC 135

Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in the United States

3-4 Units
SOC 145

Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA

4 Units
STS 139

Designing Regenerative Societies

3-4 Units
STS 156

The Future of Global Systemic Risk

3-4 Units

Data Science

Complete any of the following requirements:
POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
POLISCI 55

AI as Technology Accelerator

2 Units
POLISCI 120B

Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections

5 Units
POLISCI 127

Controversies in American Public Policy

5 Units
POLISCI 141A

Immigration and Multiculturalism

5 Units
POLISCI 150A

Data Science for Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 150B

Machine Learning for Social Scientists

3-5 Units
POLISCI 150C

Causal Inference for Social Science

3-5 Units
POLISCI 150R

Mastering Regression

3-5 Units
POLISCI 151

Tackling Big Questions Using Social Data Science

5 Units
POLISCI 153

Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory

4-5 Units
POLISCI 154

Data Science for Social Impact

5 Units
POLISCI 157

Politics of AI

4-5 Units
POLISCI 158

AI & Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 182

Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change

5 Units
POLISCI 227C

Money in Politics

3-5 Units
POLISCI 227F

The American Electorate in the Trump Era

3-5 Units
POLISCI 247A

Games Developing Nations Play

3-5 Units
POLISCI 259

Directed Reading and Research in Political Methodology

1-10 Units
POLISCI 356A

Formal Theory I

3-5 Units
POLISCI 356B

Formal Theory II

3-5 Units
POLISCI 147P

The Politics of Inequality

5 Units
POLISCI 153Z

Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory

4 Units
POLISCI 241S

Spatial Approaches to Social Science

5 Units
POLISCI 251A

Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Scientists

4 Units
POLISCI 344

Politics and Geography

3-5 Units
POLISCI 358

Data-driven Politics

3-5 Units
or
Pre-Approved Non-POLISCI Courses
Complete any of the following course(s):
COMM 106

Communication Research Methods

4-5 Units
COMM 154

The Politics of Algorithms

4-5 Units
CS 106A

Programming Methodology

3-5 Units
CS 106B

Programming Abstractions

3-5 Units
CS 109

Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists

3-5 Units
STATS 101

Data Science 101

5 Units
STATS 110

Introduction to Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences

5 Units
ECON 180

Accelerated Game Theory

5 Units
ECON 121

Social Science Field Research Methods and Applications

5 Units
OSPOXFRD 82

Politics of Inequality:Implications of Electoral Geography for Democratic Representation Quality

5 Units