REQUIREMENTS FOR
POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR - BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
Minor Required
(Non-Comprehensive) (45 hours)
Department of Political Science - Missouri State

  Completed Need
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:
15 hours		    

PLS 102: Introduction to American Public Policy

PLS 205: Introduction to Comparative Politics
OR
PLS 232: Introduction to International Relations*

PLS 499: Senior Seminar

PLS 576: Quantitative Methods of Political Science & Public Policy

SOC 302: Statistics for Social Research (or equivalent)

FIELD REQUIREMENTS: 21 hours    
American Government and Politics:
PLS 315, PLS 316, PLS 317, PLS 319, PLS 413, PLS 414, PLS 419

Empirical Political Science:
PLS 475, PLS 573, PLS 576

International Politics:
PLS 232, PLS 339, PLS 437,  PLS 535, PLS 537, PLS 547, PLS 555

Comparative Government and Politics:
PLS 205, PLS 341, PLS 343, PLS 344, PLS 345, PLS 346, PLS 348, PLS 545, PLS 547, PLS 550

Public Administration:
PLS 255, PLS 315, PLS 351, PLS 354, PLS 356, PLS 498, PLS 551, PLS 555, PLS 573

Political Theory:
PLS 561, PLS 563, PLS 567

Public Law:
PLS 419, PLS 437, PLS 451, PLS 515, PLS 517, PLS 519

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: 9 HOURS OF PLS ELECTIVES:
PLS 397, PLS 399, PLS 493, PLS 494, PLS 495, PLS 496, PLS 497, PLS 598 will be assigned to fields according to topic.
Note: MTH 285 is highly advisable to supplement this major.

 

 
TOTAL HOURS: 45    
*cannot be used as both core and field requirement