Political Science

Contact Information

Program Website: http://www.olma.vt.edu
Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning
ph: 1-866-791-4898
fax: 1-540-231-2079

Program Director

Karen Nicholson, Graduate Coordinator

Summary

The Online Masters of Arts in Political Science is identical in course content, requirement, and work load to the widely respected and high-quality residential MA degree program that has been offered in Blacksburg since 1969. The M.A. degree program features a broad array of methodologically sophisticated, theoretically grounded, and empirically oriented graduate courses to new audiences anywhere in the world.

Delivery - Completely online and asynchronous

Courses

Course Number Course Title Credit hrs
PSCI 5115 Research Methods 3
PSCI 5116 Research Methods 3
PSCI 5116 Research Methods 3
PSCI 5164 Collaborative Government 3
PSCI 5214 Contemporary Political Theory 3
PSCI 5224 Alternative Perspectives in Political Theory 3
PSCI 5244 Constitutionalism in Theory and Practice 3
PSCI 5254 Global Conflicts 3
PSCI 5314 Legislative Branch 3
PSCI 5324 The Executive Branch 3
PSCI 5334 The Judicial Branch 3
PSCI 5344 Political Behavior 3
PSCI 5354 Public Policy Analysis 3
PSCI 5364 Public Ecology 3
PSCI 5374 Electronic Governance 3
PSCI 5414 Industrial Democracies 3
PSCI 5424 Communist and Post-communist Systems 3
PSCI 5434 Politics of Developing Areas 3
PSCI 5444 International Politics 3
PSCI 5454 Advanced Topics in Information Technology and Public Policy 3
PSCI 5464 Critical Security Studies 3
PSCI 5484 Contemporary American Foreign Policy 3
PSCI 5504 Discourse Analysis 3
PSCI 5514 Global Security 3
PSCI 5524 U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11 3
PSCI 5534 Regionalism and Political Development 3
PSCI 5554 Culture, Politics and Society in Network Environments 3
PSCI 5574 Arts, Culture and Society 3
PSCI 5584 Environmental Politics and Policy 3
PSCI 5894 Final Examination 3
PSCI 5984 Special Study 1 to 19
PSCI 5994 Research and Thesis 1 to 19
PSCI 6114 Critial Geopolitics 3
PSCI 6124 TS: Terrorism and Counter-Terr 3
PSCI 6134 Alt 3rd Sector Structures 3
PSCI 6144 World Systems 3
PSCI 6244 History, Culture, and Politics of the Internet 3
PSCI 6544 Science, Technology, and Labor 3
PSCI 6984 Special Study 1 to 19

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