PLS General Education Courses

The Political Science Department offers a wide range of courses in the General Education curriculum. Many students who are not political science majors find our General Education courses stimulating and provocative. Majors and minors are able to take these courses to simultaneously fulfill General Education and major/minor requirements.

Foundations: Philosophy and Literature
PLS 105 Introduction to Human Rights

Foundations: Social and Behavioral Sciences
PLS 102 Issues in U.S. Politics (also Cultures: U.S. Diversity)
PLS 103 Issues in World Politics (also Cultures: Global Perspectives)
PLS 211 International Relations (also Cultures: Global Perspectives)

Cultures: Global Perspectives
PLS 103 Issues in World Politics (also Foundations: Social and Behavioral Sciences)
PLS 211 International Relations (also Foundations: Social and Behavioral Sciences)
PLS 281 Comparative Political Systems: Canada
PLS 283 Chinese Politics and US-China Relations
PLS 284 Latin American Politics
PLS 319 African Politics (also Issues: Globalization)

Cultures: U.S. Diversity
PLS 102 Issues in U.S. Politics (also Foundations: Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Issues (Specific Issue in parentheses)
PLS 301 Poverty, Inequality and US Public Policy (Identity)
PLS 303 Introduction to US Environmental Policy (Sustainability)
PLS 319 African Politics (Globalization; also Cultures: Global Perspectives)
PLS 334 Sex, Power, and Politics (Identity)
PLS 339 Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge (Human Rights)

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