Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Political Science] From Colorado State University

The curriculum of  program offered by   is distributed across five subfields of the discipline: American politics, political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and public policy. Political Science major course work across the subfields of the discipline is complemented by the requirement that each Political Science major completes a designated support option, which includes: a minor in another department, an interdisciplinary minor, the second language support option, the methods support option, or a second major.

Learning Outcomes

Students majoring in Political Science shall demonstrate the following:

• Ability to reason through political claims and assertions by political actors
• Skill in recognizing and responding to diverse ideological perspectives
• Ability to locate political issues and controversies within their relevant institutional and historical contexts
• Familiarity with the institutional processes of politics in numerous global and domestic political arenas
• Confidence in expressing opinions and presenting analyses of political problems and their solutions

Career prospects

The Political Science major, like all studies in the liberal arts, provides students with a broad academic background that is serviceable across a broad spectrum of employment in the public and private sectors. Political Science majors are trained to be independent and critical thinkers; to be discerning and active observers and listeners; to communicate persuasively; to constructively engage and solve intellectual and practical problems; to adapt and function effectively in a number of distinct occupational and institutional settings; to function comfortably in a multiethnic, multiracial, and globalizing society. The employment profiles of departmental alumni attest to the breadth of possibilities for today’s graduates: public and non-profit organization managers, prosecutors, public policy analysts and consultants, federal law enforcement agents, legislators and legislative analysts, foreign service officers, private attorneys, demographers, criminal investigators, advertising specialists, urban/regional planners