Certificate Requirements

Program Prerequisites: Credits: 6
ENG101 First-Year Composition (3) OR
ENG107 First-Year Composition for ESL (3) 3

CRE101 Critical and Evaluative Reading I (3) OR
Equivalent as indicated by assessment 3

Required Courses: Credits: 25
HIS/PHI/REL243 World Religions 3
POS120 World Politics 3

POS125 Issues in World Politics (3) OR
POS140 Comparative Government (3) 3

Any Foreign Language Courses with prefixes ARB, CHI, FRE, GER, GRK, HEB, ITA, JPN, POR, RUS, SPA OR Equivalent
Completion of one foreign language is recommended, e.g., SPA101 and SPA102, OR
SPA101AA and SPA102AA 8

Any Advanced Foreign Language Courses with prefixes ARB, CHI, FRE, GER, GRK, HEB, ITA,
JPN, POR, RUS, SPA OR Equivalent
Completion of one foreign language is recommended, e.g., SPA201 and SPA202, OR
SPA201AA and SPA202AA 8

Restricted Electives: Credits: 9-10
Study abroad credit may replace courses identified as electives with the approval of the Program
Director or Department Chairperson.

ASB102 Intro to Cultural and Social Anthropology 3
BIO105 Environmental Biology 4
COM263 Elements of Intercultural Communication 3
ECN111 Macroeconomics 3
ECN112 Microeconomics 3
GCU121 World Geography I: Eastern Hemisphere 3
GCU122 World Geography II: Western Hemisphere 3
GPH111 Introduction to Physical Geography 4
HIS101 History of Western Civilization Middle Ages to 1789 3
HIS102 History of Western Civilization 1789 to Present 3
HIS110 World History to 1500 3
HIS111 World History 1500 to the Present 3
HIS113 History of Eastern Civilization to 1850 3
HIS114 History of Eastern Civilization 1850 to Present 3
HIS145 History of Mexico 3
IBS101 Introduction to International Business 3
POS180 United Nations Study 3

Free Electives: None

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Program Competencies

1. Describe the influence of world religions on social, economic, and political developments. (HIS/PHI/REL243)
2. Describe similarities and differences among the beliefs, traditions, and practices of major world religions. (HIS/PHI/REL243)
3. Delineate the historical development of interstate relations and the place of the nation-state in that development while describing relevant issues such as national security, war, economic integration, trade, etc. (POS120)
4. Distinguish, define, and depict the chief characteristics of the three levels of analysis--individual, state, and international systems--and the method of arriving at policy choice decisions. (POS120)
5. Describe the differences between policy-making framework and motives inherent in the approaches of realism versus idealism. (POS120)
6. Analyze the role of scientific inquiry in the field of international relations. (POS120, POS125)
7. Differentiate and make connections between economic and political issues and questions that affect world politics, and list the various analytical and theoretical positions used to explain world politics. (POS120, POS125)
8. Describe the issue of change in the international environment and those forces that may initiate their change, including the distinction between an international current event and a current international issue. (POS120, POS125)
9. Explain the concept of super power and hegemonic control, decline, and ascension. (POS120, POS125)
10. Describe the differences in political economic terms among neomercantilism, liberalism, and socialism. (POS120, POS125)
11. Distinguish comparative methodologies developed to compare various political systems of government, including unitary, federal, and confederal government models. (POS120, POS140)
12. Compare the election practices in a selected democratic or open society with those of a non-democratic or closed society. (POS120, POS140)
13. Compare and contrast open and closed nations relative to the organization of their executive systems and relative to the operational characteristics of their representative assemblies. (POS140)
14. List major components of justice found in open societies, and state how they differ from practices of justice in closed societies. (POS140)
15. Demonstrate communication skills in a selected foreign language course sequence. (Any Foreign Language Courses with prefixes ARB, CHI, FRE, GER, GRK, HEB, ITA, JPN, POR, RUS, SPA, i.e., SPA101 & SPA102 or SPA101AA & SPA102AA OR SPA201 & SPA202 or SPA201AA & SPA202AA

Program Outline and Competencies

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Faculty

Dr. Albert F. Celoza
(602) 285-7185
Office A-136
E-mail: albert.celoza@pcmail.maricopa.edu

Eddie Genna
(602) 285-7965
Office A-127
E-mail: eddie.genna@pcmail.maricopa.edu

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