{"id":49,"date":"2011-02-16T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:33:00","slug":"programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department offers a balanced and complete undergraduate degree, including a three and four-year major and minor. A three-year major is required to take at least 30 credit hours of study, while a four-year major needs to have 48 hours in political science to graduate, including at least 9 credits of courses at the 300 or 400 level. A three year minor requires a minimum of 18 credit hours of study, while a four-year minor consist of 24 credits. Students should consult the Political Science entry in the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/calendar\/\">Undergraduate Calendar<\/a> for details of the requirements and offerings at all levels to complement the comments that follow. Of particular importance is the fact that four-year majors need to receive a minimum GPA of 3.0 in order to graduate with an honours degree. In addition to all regular courses, four year majors may request to take 499, a three-credit course of independent study called Topic, Which involves writing a mini-thesis or major research paper. If approved by the chair and the Dean, they will be assigned a supervisor under whom the research may be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>All students are required to take 172 Fundamentals of Politics\u00a0(three credit hours) as a basic entry to the discipline. They may not normally take any other courses until they have completed this prerequisite.<\/p>\n<p>Our program is divided up into sub-fields of study that include Canadian, Comparative, International, and Theory. All our majors need to take at least one course each of these sub-fields so as to ensure that they have a good general background in various aspects of the discipline. Minors are required to take at least one course in three of the sub-fields. The remaining credits are optional to ensure that students can follow their respective interests.<\/p>\n<h2>Study Programs<\/h2>\n<p>Our Department offers 4-year (Honours) major, 4-year (general) major, 4-year minor, 3-year major and 3-year minor. Some of our courses contribute towards degrees in Canadian studies, rural studies, women\u2019s studies and general studies, and towards a diploma in judicial administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department offers a balanced and complete undergraduate degree, including a three and four-year major and minor. A three-year major is required to take at least 30 credit hours of study, while a four-year major needs to have 48 hours in political science to graduate, including at least 9 credits of courses at the 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}