So great that you are thinking about this early!

Your college education is comprised of a variety of courses: General education requirements, courses for your major subject area, courses for a minor subject area (sometimes minors are optional), and elective courses (free choices not directly related to any of the above).

Different colleges have slightly different requirements, but generally an undergraduate degree involves a 4-year program of study, consisting of 2 semesters/year, and a minimum of 12-15 credits / semester (where each course counts for about 3-5 credits depending on the subject).

Here is a link to a typical undergraduate degree in Political Science. http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/pol_sci/main_under.htm#options

This example comes from a university in the US. But if you go online and find a university near you, you should be able to find this same kind of information to guide you more specifically.

This particular Dept of Political Science, subdivides the field into “options” with a particular focus

The General Option allows students to take a broad program of undergraduate preparation for active participation in public life or for graduate study in Political Science. Option worksheets are available in PDF or .XLS (Excel) format.

The Global Politics Option provides undergraduate preparation focusing on the changing nature of international politics and the emergence of a global political space. Option worksheets are available in PDF or .XLS (Excel) format.

The Prelegal Studies Option provides undergraduate preparation for entrance into a graduate school of law. Option worksheets are available in PDF or .XLS (Excel) format.

The Public Administration Option provides undergraduate preparation for career government service or positions in non-profit organizations. Option worksheets are available in PDF or .XLS (Excel) format.

On the college’s website, there’s lots more detailed information about the specific courses to take depending on if you start your studies there, if you transfer to the program as a junior (3rd yr student), if you go full time, or if you go part time, etc.

Hope this helps….best wishes in your studies.

No. To get a college degree you are required to take general or core requirements that everyone has to take in order to graduate. Then you pick a major. If your major is Political Science you will take the core requirements AND the classes required to obtain a Political Science degree. The degree takes about four years to get taking 4-5 classes per semester.

Accountancy starts out as numbers and dual-entries and business processes and it’s all fun and interesting; however, when you get out into the real world, if you’ve passed the CPA, you’ll be pushed into a subgroup of elitist, arrogant, entitled, stuffy, unethical, and generally ineffective (useless) sell-outs in the Big4 and mid-market or regional firms; or you can take your chances and TRY to forge a career with a company or government where you’ll likely get stuck without a future for eternity. If you don’t pass the CPA, you’ll be working a suicide-inspiringly, mundane job where you’ll be constantly criticized by auditors (b/c you still aren’t doing it correctly) and working with people who got their accounting degree online (after watching the commercials for it on tv). I recommend Medicine.

usually they tell you. you need “x” amount of credits to get the poli sci degree, all the remaining credits are you electives..

for example,

i’m doing a specialist in english, i need 12 credits… i’m allowedto take 20 credits, the other 8 credits i’m just taking courses like philosophy or sociology.

hope this helped

no you don’t only take one course in college…you have to take a bunch of relative courses as well as ge’s…so with my biology major, i had to take a whole bunch of chemistry, physics, math and bio classes as well as some history and social classes before reaching my major classes of only bio…