Law and Politics (B.A.)

Required Courses  (Courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted) 
GEO 200 World Geography
POL 210 American Politics
POL 211 International Relations
POL 314 Political Theory
POL 306 The American Legal Tradition
POL 326 World Legal Traditions

SCS 224 Research Methods*
MAT 245 Statistics for the Social Sciences*
SCS 444 Capstone Colloquium*

Choose fifteen credits of the following:
POL 300 Politics and Prosperity
POL 316 Legal Reasoning and the Judicial Process
POL 336 Advocacy and the Law
POL 305 State and Local Government
POL 317 Campaigns and Elections
POL 324 Congress and the Legislative Process
POL 319 US Environmental Law and Politics
POL 329 Int'l Environmental Law and Negotiation
POL 349 Comp Environ Law/Sustainable Dvlpmnt
POL 410A Semester in D.C./Pol Sci Field Trip
POL 410B Sem in D.C./Pol Sci Seminar
POL 413A Sem in Washington, D.C./Pre-Law Fld Exp
POL 413B Sem in Wash, DC: Pre-Law Seminar

*Taken as part of the B.A./B.S. core.

Graduation Requirements
SNHU 101 First Year Seminar: Foundations in Critical Thinking
Free Electives

Semester in Washington D.C.
Beginning in their junior year, political science majors may elect to spend a semester in the nation's capital as a student in SNHU's Semester in Washington, D.C., program.  The Semester in Washington, D.C., program promotes learning by doing among SNHU political science majors and minors and other SNHU students through for-credit internships and academic seminars hosted by The Washington Center in Washington, D.C. The Washington Center is an independent, not-for-profit organization that since 1975 has provided internship programs and academic seminars to college students from throughout the United States and around the world, and is affiliated with more than 850 colleges and universities nationwide.  The Washington Center provides students with housing and places them in internships appropriate to their interests.  For more information, see the course descriptions for POL 410A through 413A and POL 410B through 413B, Paul Barresi (Political Science Chair) and The Washington Center.

New Hampshire Presidential Primary 
Southern New Hampshire University's location in the largest city of the state with the first-in-the-nation presidential primary offers political science majors a unique opportunity to observe and participate in presidential politics at the grass-roots level.  In  POL 362, which is offered during the height of the New Hampshire presidential primary season, students not only study presidential politics at the grass-roots level, but acquire hands-on experience as interns with presidential campaigns.For more information about the New Hampshire presidential primary, see The New Hampshire Political Library.