====== Bachelor of Arts in Political Science ======

| [[#date_of_bor_approval|Date of BOR Approval]] |
| [[#program_learning_outcomes|Program Learning Outcomes]] |
| [[#admission_requirements|Admission Requirements]] |
| [[#graduation_requirements|Graduation Requirements]] |
| [[#summary_of_credit_units|Summary of Credit Units]] |
| [[#curriculum_checklist|Curriculum Checklist]] |
| [[#individual_course_titles_and_descriptions_with_credit_units,_pre-requisites_and/or_co-requisites|Individual Course Titles and Descriptions with Credit Units, Pre-requisites, and/or Co-requisites]] |

The BA Political Science program is a multidisciplinary undergraduate program that covers the traditional study of politics, emerging issues on health social sciences, Islamic and other religious movements, peace and conflict resolution, human rights, gender studies, sustainable development and the organizing ethics in people’s diplomacy, from the statist approach to the civil society approach. The program offers opportunities in law, teaching, advocacy, and foreign service and international affairs to its graduates.\\
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==== Date of BOR Approval (Institution) ====
May 27, 1999\\
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==== Program Learning Outcomes ====
Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts in Political Science program are expected to be able to:
  - compare and contrast the major concepts, theories, and methods in Political Science; 
  - design and execute research using rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods guided by appropriate theories or conceptual frameworks;
  - demonstrate written, visual and oral presentation skills to produce and present analytical reports;
  - critique and respond to current issues and problems based on a substantive understanding of the historical and contemporary developments in the national and global contexts; and 
  - be predisposed towards ethical political involvement and practice in various forms and on different levels of engagement.
==== Admission Requirements ====
  - Complete UPCAT application (with Form 1 and Form 2B)
  - Take UPCAT 
  - Upload high school records and supporting documents
  - Get your UPG score and wait for offers
  - Prepare for possible interview/essay (if required by CAS)
  - Accept offer and complete health requirements
=== Graduation Requirements ===
  - Students must file a formal application as candidates for graduation with the office of the Dean of their respective colleges. They shall be recommended for graduation by the faculty of their respective colleges after having satisfied all academic and other requirements prescribed for graduation. 
  - During the first three (3) weeks after the opening of classes in each semester, each Dean or the duly authorized representative, shall submit to the University Registrar a list of candidates for graduation at the next commencement. The University Registrar, in consultation with the chairs of divisions or departments concerned, shall then inquire into the academic records of the candidates to ascertain whether any candidate in such a list has any deficiency to make up and whether s/he has fulfilled all other requirements to be a candidate for graduation. If there is any question regarding a candidate, her/his name should not be deleted from the list of candidates for graduation, but a footnote to that effect should be made. Ten (10) weeks before the end of a semester, the University Registrar shall publish a complete list of duly qualified candidates for graduation for that semester (Revised UP Code: Art. 406 as amended at 790th BOR Meeting: 19 Dec 1969 and 861st BOR Meeting: 29 May 1975). 
  - All candidates for graduation must have their deficiencies settled and their records cleared not later than five (5) weeks before the end of their last semester, with the exception of those in academic subjects and work in Physical Education and NSTP, in which the student is currently enrolled (Revised UP Code: Art. 407). 
=== Summary of Credit Units ===
^ Category ^ Credit Units ^
| General Education | 27.0 |
| Foundation | 41.0 |
| Majors | 48.0 |
| Cognate | 12.0 |
| Legislated | 3.0 |
| Total | 146.0 |
=== Curriculum Checklist ===
^  First Year  ^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| GE (CORE) WIKA 1 (Wika, Kultura at Lipunan) | 3.0 | GE (CORE) COMM 10 (Critical Perspectives in Communication) | 3.0 |
| GE (CORE) KAS 1 (Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas) | 3.0 | GE (CORE) MATH 10 (Math, Culture and Society) | 3.0 |
| GE (PRESCRIBED) | 3.0 | GE (CORE) ETHICS 1 (Ethics and Moral Reasoning) | 3.0 |
| Communication I (Communication Skills I) | 3.0 | Communication II (Communication Skills II) | 3.0 |
| Mathematics 11 (College Algebra) | 3.0 | Psychology 101 (General Psychology) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 11 (Introduction to Political Science) | 3.0 | Political Science 14 (Philippine Politics) | 3.0 |
| PE 1 | 2.0 | PE 2 | 2.0 |
| NSTP 1 | 3.0 | NSTP 2 | 3.0 |
| Total | 15.0 | Total | 18.0 |

^  Second Year  ^^^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||  **Midyear**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| GE (CORE) STS (Science, Technology & Society) | 3.0 | GE (PRESCRIBED) | 3.0 | Political Science 190 (Practicum) | 6.0 |
| GE (PRESCRIBED) | 3.0 | Economics 101 (Macroeconomic) | 3.0 |
| Communication III (Speech Communication) | 3.0 | Political Science 110 (Political Analysis) | 3.0 |
| Economics 11 (Introductory Economics) | 3.0 | Political Science 130 (Introduction to Health and Politics) | 4.0 |
| Political Science 150 (Introduction to Philippine Public Administration) | 3.0 | Political Science 170 (Introduction to Comparative Politics) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 160 (Introduction to Political Dynamics) | 3.0 | Political Science 182 (Introduction to International Politics) | 3.0 |
| PE 2 | 2.0 | PE 4 | 2.0 |
| Total | 18.0 | Total | 19.0 | Total | 6.0 | 

^  Third Year  ^^^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||  **Midyear**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| Economics 102 (Microeconomics) | 4.0 | Community Development 100 (The Philippine Community) | 3.0 | CMSC 190 (Practicum) | 3.0 |
| Philosophy 11 (Logic) | 3.0 | Political Science 126 (Philippine Political Thought) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 120 (Introduction to Political Theory) | 3.0 | Political Science 178 (Southeast Asian Politics) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 199.1 (Quantitative Research in Political Science) | 3.0 | Political Science 199.2 (Qualitative Research in Political Science) | 3.0 |
| Public Administration 142 (Politics and Administration) | 3.0 | Cognate | 3.0 |
| Elective | 3.0 | Elective | 3.0 |
| Total | 19.0 | Total | 18.0 | Total | 3.0 |

^  Fourth Year  ^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| Economics 151 (Government Finance) | 3.0 | Philosophy 171 (Ethics) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 200 (Thesis) | 3.0 | PI 100 (The Life and Works of Jose Rizal) | 3.0 |
| Cognate | 3.0 | Cognate | 3.0 |
| Cognate | 3.0 | Elective | 3.0 |
| Elective | 3.0 | Elective | 3.0 |
| Total | 15.0 | Total | 15.0 |

=== Individual Course Titles and Descriptions with Credit Units, Pre-requisites, and/or Co-requisites ===
==== Major Courses ====

**Course Code:** Political Science 11\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Concepts, theories, and principles of political sciences, types of political systems\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 14\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Government and Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Development, organization, and operation of the Philippine political system with emphasis on the present\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 110\\
**Course Title:** Political Analysis\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 11 and Pol Sci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Frameworks of political analysis and approaches for understanding and explaining political phenomena\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 120\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Political Theory\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** An introduction to major themes and key concepts in normative political theory\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 130\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Health and Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political analysis as applied to issues of health; Concepts, approaches and principles in health policy and administration, political economy of health, and health advocacy and communication\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 150\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Philippine Public Administration\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Principles, practices, and problems of public administration; historical, behavioral and institutional analysis and evaluation of the national and local bureaucracy and administration of the Philippines\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 160\\
**Course Title:** Society, Politics and Government\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Society as the matrix of politics; political power and leadership; patterns in decision-making; political modernization and development\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 170\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Comparative Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** An introduction to comparative political processes in the developed and developing states\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 181\\
**Course Title:** American Foreign Policy\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Development of American foreign policy, forces, techniques and problems in the formulation and implementation of the United States foreign policy in the major regions, with emphasis on Asia\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 182\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to International Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11 and PolSci 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Interplay of political forces in the international system, national power, national interests and goals, settlement of international disputes\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 190\\
**Course Title:** Practicum\\
**Credit Units:** 6.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken more than 90 units including PA 142 and CD 100\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** A field course to enable students to practice theories, concepts, and principles learned in political science\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 198\\
**Course Title:** Special Problems in Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 11, PolSci 14, and PolSci 110\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Special Problems\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 199.1\\
**Course Title:** Quantitative Research in Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 110, Math 11\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Quantitative approaches, design, and methods in political science research\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 199.2\\
**Course Title:** Qualitative Research in Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 199.1\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Qualitative approaches, design, and methods in political science research\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 200\\
**Course Title:** Thesis\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 110, Pol Sci 199.1, and Pol Sci 199.2\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Directed research and writing of undergraduate thesis\\
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**Course Code:** Public Administration 142\\
**Course Title:** Politics and Administration\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Principles, concepts, and techniques for systematic analysis and decision-making in public policy\\
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**Course Code:** Public Administration 161\\
**Course Title:** Government Planning\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Pol Sci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Principles, concepts, and techniques for systematic analysis and decision-making in public policy\\
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==== Electives ====

**Course Code:** Political Science 122\\
**Course Title:** Ancient and Medieval Political Theory\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political thought from Plato to Machiavelli\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 123\\
**Course Title:** Modern Political Theory\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political thought from Machiavelli with emphasis on the contemporary\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 124\\
**Course Title:** American Political Theory\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120 and PolSci 171\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political and social ideas of leading American statesmen, publicist, and other thinkers from the colonial period to the present and their influence upon American democracy\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 125\\
**Course Title:** Asian Political Thought\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Main currents of Asian political thought\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 126\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Political Thought\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Main currents of Philippine political thought\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 128\\
**Course Title:** Contemporary Political Theory\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 120\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Contemporary currents in political theory\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 131\\
**Course Title:** Biopolitics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 130\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Various traditions of critical theory as applied to issues on the dynamic relationship between health, body and political processes\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 132\\
**Course Title:** Comparative Health Policy\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 130\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Politics of health care and the making of health policy in the Philippines and other health and political systems around the world\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 139\\
**Course Title:** Special Topics in Health and Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 130\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Special Topics\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 151\\
**Course Title:** The Executive\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** The national executive in the Philippines; its nature and development\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 152\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Legislative System\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Structure and function of the Philippine legislative system; legislative behavior and legislative processes; statute and bill drafting; executive and judicial law-making\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 153\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Judicial System\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Role of courts and other law enforcement agencies in the administration of justice\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 159\\
**Course Title:** Special Topics in Philippine Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 150\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Current Issues in Philippine politics\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 161\\
**Course Title:** Political Parties and Interest\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 160\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** The types and structures of political parties and interest groups; their functions in the political system; their strategy and tactics, particularly in aggregating and articulating interest in controlling governmental power and public policy\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 162\\
**Course Title:** Politics of Change\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 160\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Problems of social, economic and political change in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 163\\
**Course Title:** Political Behavior, Processes, and Movements\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 160\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Belief systems, nature, and development; processes and movements\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 171\\
**Course Title:** American Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Theory and dynamics of the government and politics of the United States\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 172\\
**Course Title:** European Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political systems of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Russia\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 173\\
**Course Title:** United Kingdom and Commonwealth Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political systems of the United Kingdom and the principal Commonwealth States\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 177\\
**Course Title:** East Asian Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political systems of Japan, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, Nationalist China, and Republic of South Korea\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 178\\
**Course Title:** Southeast Asian Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political systems of Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 179\\
**Course Title:** Government and Politics of South Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Political systems of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Nepal\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 179.1\\
**Course Title:** Special Topics in Comparative Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 170\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Special Topic\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 180\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Foreign Policy\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Development of Philippine foreign policy, forces, techniques and problems in the formulation and implementation of the Philippine foreign policy\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 183\\
**Course Title:** International Organizations\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Development, structures, functions, and problems of international organization\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 184\\
**Course Title:** Diplomatic and Consular Practice\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Development, functions, organizations and problems of diplomatic and consular practice with emphasis on the Philippines\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 185\\
**Course Title:** Public International Law\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Nature, development, sources, principles and problems of international law and its role in the development of the international community; selected cases\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 186\\
**Course Title:** Private International Law\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Selected cases involving citizens or juridical entities of different states\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 189\\
**Course Title:** Special Topics in International Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** PolSci 182\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Current issues in international politics\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 197\\
**Course Title:** Special Topics in Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 90 units\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Current issues in Political Science\\
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==== General Education Courses ====

**Course Code:** Soc Sci 2\\
**Course Title:** Social, Economic and Political Thought\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** A survey of social, economic and political thinkers from the classical to the contemporary\\
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