Sep 30, 2024

2024-2025 Catalog

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2024-2025 Catalog

Power and Politics, BA or BS

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All courses credited toward the major must be passed with a grade of C- or better.

Core: Lower Division (20 credits)

EC 201 - Principles of Microeconomics 4 credits
EC 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics 4 credits
PHL 201 - Introduction to Philosophy 4 credits
PS 201 - Power and Politics 4 credits
PS 202 - Introduction to American Government and Politics 4 credits

Lower Division Electives (choose two: 8 credits)

CCJ 251 - Law & Society 4 credits
GSWS 201 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
IS 250 - Introduction to International Studies 4 credits
PHL 205 - Ethics: Moral Issues 4 credits
SOAN 213 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 4 credits

Core: Upper Division (16 credits)

EC 320 - Introduction to the International Economy 4 credits
PS 313 - American Politics 4 credits
PS 350 - World Politics 4 credits
PS 355 - Comparative Politics 4 credits

Areas (Choose courses from at least two of the following four areas: minimum 36 credits)

I. Political Economy

EC 325 - Labor Economics 4 credits
EC 330 / GSWS 330 - Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Economy 4 credits
EC 373 - History of Economic Thought 4 credits
EC 389 - America in the Global Economy 4 credits
HST 331 - Money and Power in the United States through 1929 4 credits
or
HST 332 - Money and Power in the United States since 1929 4 credits
SOAN 304 - Poverty, Family, and Policy 4 credits
SOAN 372 - Social Inequality 4 credits

II. Global Power and Politics

HST 352 - Modern Latin America 4 credits
HST 372 - Twentieth-Century Revolutions 4 credits
HST 364 / PS 364 - Empire & Decolonization 4 credits
HST 393 / PS 393 - Oil, Politics, and the Environment 4 credits
HST 452 / PS 452 - United States Foreign Relations through 1945 4 credits
HST 453 / PS 453 - The Cold War 4 credits
HST 454 / PS 454 - U.S.-Latin American Relations 4 credits
HST 460 / PS 460 - Grand Strategy 4 credits
HST 461 / PS 461 - U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1991 4 credits
IS 380 - Regional and Country Studies 4 credits
SOAN 319 - Global Cultures, Societies, or Topics 4 credits

III. Identity

GSWS 302 - Contemporary U.S. Women’s Movements 4 credits
GSWS 417 - Sexual Politics in U.S. History 4 credits
NAS 331 - Language Revitalization 4 credits
NAS 368 - Native American Topics 4 credits
NAS 368A - Queer Indigenous Studies 4 credits
NAS 368B - Indigenous Masculinities 4 credits
NAS 368C - Decolonizing Transgender 4 credits
NAS 368D - Indigenous Solidarities 4 credits
NAS 410 - Native, Ethnic, and Racial Studies in Action 4 credits
PHL 373 - Philosophy and Sexuality 4 credits
PS 310 - Media and American Politics 4 credits
PS 317 - American Collective Action 4 credits
SOAN 310 - Topics in American Culture and Society 4 credits
SOAN 310A - Latinx in Oregon 4 credits
SOAN 337 - Racial and Ethnic Relations 4 credits
SOAN 343 - Gender, Race, and the Body 4 credits

IV. Theory & Philosophy

GSWS 413 - Feminist Philosophy and Theory 4 credits
HST 348 - Marx and Jesus in Latin America 4 credits
NAS 301 - Tribal Critical Race Theory 4 credits
PHL 330 - Science, Democracy, and Citizenship 4 credits
PHL 353 - Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction 4 credits
PS 371 - Topics in Political Philosophy 4 credits

V. American National Politics

PS 310 - Media and American Politics 4 credits
PS 311 - Public Opinion & Survey Research 4 credits
PS 317 - American Collective Action 4 credits
PS 324 - Political Campaigns 4 credits
PS 325 - Elections, Money, and Democracy in America 4 credits
PS 332 - Money and Power in the United States since 1929 4 credits

Research Methods (4 credits)

PS 300 - Research Methods or PS 311 - Public Opinion & Survey Research (or a methods course from another discipline with permission of major advisor).

Capstone (4 credits)

PS 498 - Senior Seminar 4 credits