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WORKSHEET FOR M.I.A.A. (Revised September 2006)

(DEGREE REQUIREMENT IS A MINIMUM OF 39 HOURS)

I.  REQUIRED COURSES:

Complete all of the required seminars listed below.

I.  Required Course                          Completed                              Need

Note:  Student must complete all of the courses listed above which total 18 hours.  Students must also complete either PLS 699 or 680 as listed under the research requirement in Section V below.

II.              COGNATE FIELDS:

Choose between 15 and 18 hours in one of the following cognate fields after consulting program director and obtaining approval of department head.

Field A:  International Relations and Comparative Politics (Choose 15 to 18 hours)*

Course                                                Completed                              Need

Note: Some courses in other departments may require prerequisites. It is your responsibility to contact the relevant department to determine if you can be admitted to the class.

Field B:  Public Administration and Management*

Course                                                Completed                              Need

Note: Some courses in other departments may require prerequisites. It is your responsibility to contact the relevant department to determine if you can be admitted to the class.

Field C:  International Economics and Business (choose 15-18 hours)*

Course                                                Completed                              Need

*Note: Some courses in other departments may require prerequisites. It is your responsibility to contact the relevant department to determine if you can be admitted to the class.

Field D:  Defense and Strategic Studies (choose 15-18 hours). Please note that many of these seminars are offered only in the MSU Washington, D.C. campus.*

Course                                                Completed                              Need

Note: Some courses in other departments may require prerequisites. It is your responsibility to contact the relevant department to determine if you can be admitted to the class.

III.          FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT:

Equivalent of Two Years of Course Work in a Modern Language (those seeking to receive credit for a language will be required to produce transcripts indicating previous training and/or pass a written and oral examination in the language).

Language                                            Completed                              Need

IV. QUANTITATIVE METHODS REQUIREMENT:

Students without training in statistics must complete PLS 576 or ECO 508 (or equivalent as approved by advisor).  Those who wish to receive credit without taking one of these courses must pass a diagnostic test in the area

V. RESEARCH REQUIREMENT:

A student will be required to complete 6 or 3 hours in either Option 1 or Option2 two as outlined below:

Option 1:  PLS 699 Thesis (6 hours). This option is open only to those students who maintain a minimum GPA of 3.75.  Please note that a thesis requires considerable work and the completed thesis must meet with the approval of a committee who will review it.

Course                                                Title                                        Reader

Option 2:  PLS 680 Independent Study Course in Political Science.

Course                                                Title                                       Reader

VI. COMPREHENSIVE EXAM:

Upon completion of course work, students with a GPA of less than 3.75 must complete a comprehensive exam that will cover material presented in the core seminars.  It is the student’s responsibility to inform the director and the department head at the beginning of the semester in which he or she wishes to graduate that a comprehensive exam should be administered toward the end of the semester.  Do not wait until the end of the semester to remind faculty that you are graduating.

This page was developed by Dr. Dennis Hickey, Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs, September 2006.