Minors
James Madison College has four different minors.
The college offers five multidisciplinary majors through an integrative curriculum: rigorous common first-year program, cumulative major sequences and senior seminars. JMC coursework emphasizes in-class discussion, intensive faculty interaction, analytical writing and critical thinking.
Are you interested in understanding the complexity of pressing global challenges and the myriad ways of addressing them? Learn about the political, economic, social and security interactions between states and societies across the globe.
Some classes will use case studies in which students will be examining real or hypothetical foreign policy dilemmas and developing solutions to them. Others will evidence the importance of theories and models for comprehending and influencing world events.
Learn more about the International Relations major.
Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy (PTCD) probes the major competing principles that have animated political communities and how we have attempted to translate these into practice. PTCD curriculum is both philosophical and historical. Course readings range from Plato and the classical poets to contemporary political theory, literature and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
The PTCD curriculum is coherent yet flexible. The required courses are carefully sequenced and built on one another, while also allowing students to use the curriculum as the basis for a program that integrates their interests inside and outside the college.
Learn more about the Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy major.
Politics, Rights, & Culture (formerly Comparative Cultures and Politics) is a major that studies how culture and politics intersect in global, transnational and national public affairs. This major’s interdisciplinary approach combines the humanities and social sciences to give students the skills they need to understand and address global public affairs.
The PRC major provides students with tools to better understand diverse cultural perspectives around the world, explore how culture shapes power relations, and how political and economic dynamics impact culture
Learn more about the Politics, Rights, & Culture major.
Public Affairs in Secondary Education (PASE) is a major that prepares future social studies educators through a public and international affairs lens. The program combines James Madison College's interdisciplinary approach to public affairs with the coursework and field experiences required for secondary teacher certification in Michigan, enabling students to graduate in four years ready to inspire the next generation of informed citizens.
Learn more about the Public Affairs for Secondary Education major.
The Social Relations and Policy (SRP) major explores the domain of public issues that are especially affected by relations among groups. The field is explicitly historical and comparative, looking at social relations in the United States and internationally over time. Courses focus on the sociology, history and politics of intergroup relations, paying close attention to the influence and intersectionality of class, race, ethnicity, sex/gender, religious belief and national identity.
The program uses the study of social relations as a way to cultivate reasoning, methodological and analytical skills and the capacities for empathetic observation, normative judgment and effective problem-solving.
Learn more about the Social Relations & Policy major.
James Madison College has four different minors.
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