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Department of Political Science Areas of Concentration and Course Requirements Ph.D. students are required to take general examinations in two of the Department's five fields (American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Public Law). In order to sit for the general examination in a field, students must meet the course requirements set forth by the Committee for that particular field. The requirements for each field appear below. In addition, all doctoral candidates must take Nature of Political Inquiry -POLS 393, Research Design -POLS 396, Introduction to Quantitative Methods -POLS 395 and Research Seminar in Quantitative Methods -POLS 493.
In preparing for the Ph.D. examinations, students in the field of American Politics should take the following courses or their equivalents:
Comparative Politics
-At least two of the following topics courses:
Tool Requirements: Students are strongly urged to meet the Graduate School's tool requirement through study of a foreign language relevant to their field of study. Depending on the thesis topic, additional quantitative work beyond the Department's quantitative methods tool requirements may also be required by the student's committee. Field Experience: Obtaining field experience, either in the course of dissertation research or during the period of graduate study - study abroad, internship, involvement in a research project is strongly encouraged.
International Relations -Foreign Policy Analysis - POLS 325 -Two or More of the Following:
-One or More of the Following
Political Theory -At Least Three of the Following:
Students are also encourage to take seminars from other topics related to the Political Theory field, which must be approved by the Field Committee. Also, students who have not, as undergraduates, taken an upper-division, year-long sequence in the history of political theory are strongly encouraged to enroll (for graduate credit) in POLS 201 and POLS 202.
Public Law -Judicial Decision-making - POLS 353 -At Least One of the Following:
-One or More of the Following
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