Political Science

Political Science

The Associate in Arts in Political Science for Transfer Degree is designed to prepare the student for transfer to four-year institutions of higher education and specifically intended to satisfy the lower division requirements for the Baccalaureate in Arts in Political Science at the California State University. This degree is designed to prepare students to understand and critically appraise the American political system and central issues in American politics, to evaluate topics in the key areas of political science, to clearly express political science concepts in scholarly writing, and to demonstrate an understanding of these ideas through their application to contemporary political problems.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• Describe, explain, and evaluate relationships between diverse identity and interest groups with American political institutions, political systems, policies and processes.
• Identify and analyze the major current global and domestic political theories and ideologies.
• Explain and critique issues in American, Comparative and World Politics and be able to use theoriesand debates to argue convincingly in defense of a position, selecting examples to illustrate points andorganizing these appropriately.
• Employ a variety of current social scientific methodologies in the research, analysis and evaluation ofdata.

Political Science

Associate in Art for Transfer Degree

The Associate in Art in Political Science for Transfer degree will be awarded upon completion of 60 California State University (CSU) transferable units including the above major requirements and the California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC) requirements and with a minimum grade point average of 2.0. All courses in the major must be completed with a grade of 'C' or better (or a 'P' if taken as Pass/No Pass).