Reference Table for POLITICAL SCIENCE

To allow courses with grades below your minimum

       The following table gives instructions for RU exceptions, which can be created either in EARS or from the 370 screen of the SDB.  However, if you want DARS to accept a course with a grade below the minimum for a given requirement, use an RR exception, available only from the 370 screen.
 

To allow special topics and ancient courses to apply to Areas of Inquiry
Use the CS exception.

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HONORS

Introductory Courses
Political Fields
Honors Field Study
Electives
GPA in Major

Political Communication
Political Economics
International Security

*"Assign other course," below, means "apply a course which is not usually acceptable for this requirement."

REQUIREMENT

PSNAME

WHAT YOU CAN DO

RU-EXCEPTION FIELDS TO USE

Introduction to Political Science

Overall:
3 Courses; 14 Credits

POLSINTRODUCT

Waive a course

VAL: -1

Waive credit

REQHRS: -1

One course from

POL S 101, 201 - 205

POLSINTRO

Assign other course

COURSE:

POLSINT4.5

Assign other 4.5-cr course (counts as 5)

COURSE:

POLSINT-R

Block/Remove course

COURSE:

Political Fields

One course in at least three different fields (out of 5)

POLSFIELDS

Waive a field

REQSRQ/REQCT: -1

Field A: Political Theory

A

Assign other course

COURSE:

A-R

Block/Remove course

COURSE:

Field B: Comparative Government and Politics

B

Etc

You may need to remove a course (making room for another) if the student is taking the Pol Econ option and has too much overlap from major to option.

B-R

Field C: International Relations

C

C-R

Field D: American Government & Politics

D

D-R

Field E: Methods

E

E-R

- OR -

Honors Field Study

3 honors seminars:
POL S 398

P-HONORS

Waive a course
Assign other course

REQSRQ/REQCT: -1
COURSE:

Upper Division Electives

20 Credits

POLSUPPERDIV

Waive credit

REQHRS: -1

Require more credit

REQHRS: +1

POLSUD

Assign other course

COURSE:

POLSUD-4.5

Assign other 4.5 credit course

COURSE:

POLSUD-REJ

Remove/block a course

COURSE:

POLSUD-499

Allow any one course not usually permitted

COURSE:

Allow two courses

MAXCT: +1

GPA in Major

2.25 GPA in all courses used in the major and taken at UW

PS-GPA-R

Remove/block a course from counting in GPA

COURSE:

PS-ALLOW

Add any course not used in requirements

COURSE:

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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION OPTION (60-11)

50 credits

PC

Waive credit

REQHRS: -1

3 courses:
Discipline Foundations

DF

Assign other course

COURSE:

DF-R

Block/Remove course

COURSE:

One course:Methods

-OR-

ME

Etc

ME-R

One course: Theory

TH

TH-R

One course:
Soc/Inst Context

SI

SI-R

Two courses:
Adv Pol Communication

APC

APC-R

Two electives

EL

EL-R

 

25 Cr in POL S/Jointly-Offered

IN-POLS

Assign other course

COURSE:

IN-POLS-R

Block/Remove course

COURSE:

25 Cr in COM/Jointly-Offered

OUT-POLS

Assign other course

COURSE:

OUT-POLS-R

Block/Remove course

COURSE:

POLITICAL ECONOMICS OPTION (70-11), INTERNATIONAL SECURITY OPTION (80-11)

OVERLAP IN POL ECON WITH MAJOR: If DARS detects that more than 20/25 credits of coursework used in the major are also applying to the option, a warning will appear in the student's audit:

WARNING: The courses below total more than the 20/25 credits in the major which may also be used in the option. Please see your adviser for resolution. [All double-used courses will display below the message.]

If the student has other courses (in "Additional Political Science courses") that could be used in a major- or in an option-requirement in place of a double-counting course, you can block/remove the double-counting course from one of the two requirements in which it appears. You may just want to email DARS, telling us which course should be removed from which requirement in order to make way for another.

After the exception has been made, the warning will disapper.

NOTE: You may also force the message to disappear and be replaced by the following:

Department has approved increased overlap between the major and the option.

It's very, very easy. On the 370 screen, create an SQ exception. After you send you'll be on the SRU375. In the very first field, AC1: _, place the number 1 and send. Rerun the audit, and the warning message will be replaced.

POL ECON Introductory

15 credits

PE-15

Waive credit

REQHRS: (-5 to waive one course)

PE-200

Assign other course

COURSE:

PE-200-4.5

Assign other 4.5-cr course

COURSE:

POL ECON Electives

30 credits

PE-30

Waive credit

REQHRS (-5 to waive one course)

PE-ADV

Assign other course

COURSE:

PE-ADV-4.5

Assign other 4.5-cr course

COURSE:

PE-ADV-R

Block/Remove a course (any cr value)

COURSE:


INTL SECURITY Intro & Advanced
 
15 credits PIS-15 Waive credit REQHRS: - #
PIS-200 Assign other course COURSE:
PIS-200-4.5 Assign other 4.5-cr course COURSE:

INTL SECURITY Electives

30 credits PIS-30 Waive credit REQHRS: - #
PIS-EL Assign other course COURSE:
PIS-EL-4.5 Assign other 4.5-cr course COURSE:
PIS-EL-R Block/Remove a course (any cr value) COURSE:


Honors
 

Departmental Honors POLS-HNR18
(2018 requirements)
Insert the honors requirement (and remove the invitation, if it has appeared) REQSRQ/REQCT: -1

(You're not really waiving anything. It's just a trick)
POLS-HNR17
(2017 requirements)
POLS-HNR16
(2016 requirements)
POLS-HONORS
(pre-2015 requirements)
NO-POLS-HONORS Remove the invitation without inserting the honors requirement REQSRQ/REQCT: -1
POL S 400-level Seminar Course POLSHSEM Assign a course COURSE: