2006-2007 Academic Year - Trinity University

POLITICAL SCIENCE
BUSN 3341
BUSN 3361
COMM 3362
ECON 3339
PHIL 3353
SOCI 3350
5. American Public Policy
Legal Concepts of Business II
International Business Law
Media Law and Policy
Economic Analysis of Law
Philosophy of Law
Sociology of Law
This concentration is designed for students who are interested in public policy
and policy analysis.
a. Lower division requirements (9 hours).
b. Distribution of courses in five subfields:
The student is required to take at least one course in each of the
discipline’s five major fields (American Politics, Comparative Politics,
International Politics, Public Law, and Political Theory. Judicial Process
can be used to satisfy the Public Law requirement). Lower division
courses may be used to satisfy this distribution requirement.
c. Seven upper division courses in American Politics to include the
following: Policy Analysis and the Policymaking Process, the Federal
System, Bureaucratic Politics (21 hours).
d. Research Methods in Political Science (PLSI 3372) or a research
methods course offered by another department that is approved by the
advisor (3 hours).
e. ECON 1311, 1312 (6 hours).
f. Two courses that examine policy making and implementation from the
perspective of another discipline (6 hours):
ECON 3323 The Economics of Government
ECON 3330 Economics and the Environment
ECON 3334 Urban Economics
ECON 3336 Antitrust Economics
ECON 3338 Government Regulation of Business
SOCI 3324 Crime and Delinquency
SOCI 3339 The Welfare State
III.
Completion of Senior Experience
All majors must complete a course that satisfies the requirement for the Senior
Experience. Options that are available to majors include:
PLSI 4390 (Senior Seminar in Political Science).
An approved Senior Experience course in a second major.
GNED 4300 (Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar).
GNED 4301 (Senior Synthesis).
IV.
Electives sufficient to total 124 semester hours.
GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTANCE OF MAJORS
1. Completion of two lower division courses with grades of C or better.
2. An overall grade point average of at least 2.0.
THE MINOR
The requirements for the Minor:
A minimum of 18 semester hours of political science. Six hours shall be lower division; the
remaining 12 shall be upper division. All courses shall be selected under the supervision of a
departmental advisor.
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