哥倫比亞大學(xué)

The political science-statistics major requires a minimum of 15 courses in political science, statistics, mathematics, and computer science, to be distributed as follows:

Political Science

Primary Subfield

Students must choose a Primary Subfield to study. Within the subfield, students must take a minimum of three courses, including the subfield's introductory course. The subfields and their corresponding introductory courses are as follows:

American Politics:

POLS UN1201 Introduction to American Government and Politics

Comparative Politics:

POLS UN1501 Introduction to Comparative Politics

International Relations:

POLS UN1601 Introduction to International Politics

Political Theory:

POLS UN1101 Political Theory I

Additionally, students must take one 4-point 3000-level seminar in their Primary Subfield.

Research Methods

Students must take the following two research methods courses:

POLS GU4710 Principles of Quantitative Political Research

Or POLS UN3704 Data Analysis and Statistics for Political Science Research

POLS GU4712 Analysis of Political Data

STATISTICS

Students must take one of the following sequences:

Sequence A — recommended for students preparing for graduate study in statistics 1

MATH UN1101 Calculus I

MATH UN1102 Calculus II

MATH UN2010 Linear Algebra

STAT UN1201 Calculus-Based Introduction to Statistics

STAT GU4203 PROBABILITY THEORY

STAT GU4204 Statistical Inference

STAT GU4205 Linear Regression Models

STAT GU4206 Statistical Computing and Introduction to Data Science

Or

Sequence B — recommended for students preparing to apply statistical methods to other fields

STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics

STAT UN2102 Applied Statistical Computing

STAT UN2103 Applied Linear Regression Analysis

STAT UN2104 Applied Categorical Data Analysis

STAT UN3105 Applied Statistical Methods

STAT UN3106 Applied Data Mining

Statistics Elective

Students must take an approved elective in a statistics or a quantitatively oriented course in a social science.