1.

A political science major is offered the opportunity to specialize in any one of the
following four of the discipline: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS,
COMPARATIVE POLITICS, AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES leading to the award of the
BA(HONS) (Public administration option), BA(HONS) (International politics option),or
BA(HONS)(comparative politics) and BA(HONS)(development studies).

2. A student specializing in any one of the branches is required to offer two(2)

prescribed electives in the relevant area, plus the listed core course(s).

3. A student combining political science and another course is required to offer two
core courses including research methods in level 300 and 400 except students
pursuing similar research method courses in geography, psychology, sociology who
can substitute another course for the research method.

This has not been in operation by the faculty of social studies.

Level 300 courses

Core

POLI 301 Ancient and medieval political thought.

POLI 303 Introduction to political research

Prescribed elective

 International politics

POLI 305 International organisation

POLI 307 International conflict, conflict resolution and human rights

 Comparative politics

POLI 309 Ghana from colonialism to independence

POLI 311 Africa: Political economy of colonialism

 Development studies

POLI 313 Theories of development and underdevelopment

POLI 315 Identities and conflicts in Africa

 public administration
 POLI 317 Organisation theory

POLI 319 Public policy making

FREE ELECTIVE

POLI 321 Governance and leadership

POLI 323 Terrorism and global security

POLI 325 Environmental politics

POLI 327 Introduction to America politics

Semester 2
Core

POLI 302 Modern western political thought

POLI 304 Methods of political research

PRESCRIBED ELECTIVE

 International politics

POLI 306 Africa and the global system

POLI 308 Regional integration

 Comparative politics

POLI 312 Issues in comparative politics

POLI 314 State-society relations in Ghana since independence

 Development studies

POLI 316 Strategies of development in africa

POLI 318 Conflict and society in africa

 Public administration

POLI 322 Development administration

POLI 318 Public policy process in Ghana

 KOFI THESE RE THE COURSES IN LEVEL 300.THERE RE FREE ELECTIVES BUT I
DNT THINK U’LL NEED THEM.I WILL GIVE U DA COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR FIRST
SEMESTER ONLY(NEXT SEM).

COURSE DESCRIPTION
POLI 301 Ancient and medieval political thought: A study of plato,
Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas and machiavelli

POLI 303 Introduction to political research: Aims and objectives social

research; different approaches to research-eg. Empirical research-and their
characteristics; problems of verification, objectivity generalization,
explanation(theory building) and prediction; normative and non-normative
knowledge. Computing methods-developing computer-based skills.

POLI 305 International organizations: The aims, objectives and

problems of league of nations. The aims, objectives, problems and future
roles of the united nations and its agencies, the OAU/Africa Union, ECOWAS,
European Union etc.

POLI 307 Internationalconflict, conflict resolution and human

rights: Nature, sources and types of international conflict. Conflict behavior
among states. Mechanism for conflict resolution(eg. Negotiations, mediation,
arbitration), peace and justice; and institutions like International court of
justice, international criminal court.

POLI 309 Ghana from colonialism to independence: Analyses of

colonial policies and their impact-social, economic and political; the anti-
colonial struggle.

POLI 311 Africa: political economy of colonialism: The forces that

shaped the colonialization of Africa; colonialism and its social, economic and
political impact on Africa; liberation movements, struggles for independence.

POLI 313 Theories of development and underdevelopment: A review

of some of the main works on the theories of development and
underdevelopment-classical, liberal, Marxist theories; Rostow, Frank,
Amin,Wallerstein.

POLI 315 Identities and conflict in Africa : Theories of identity, identity

crisis and governance and their impact on state, constitutions, development-
civil wars, ethnic and religious strives, minority conflicts-with case studies.

POLI 317 Organisation theory: The structured and functioning of

organizations and the behavior of groups and individuals within them.
Theories of organization, eg. Structural, group/behavioural, individual,
decision making and policy analysis, socio-technical system.

POLI 319 Public policy making: Models of public policy making and
implementation; policy environment; policy networks and communities;
conditions to effective public policy making.

JOSEPHINE SAYS SHE WILL FIND OUT FOR GEOGRAPHY..LET ME KNOW WHEN
U DECIDE..