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The University Of Georgia

Program name:	Political Sciences
Study Level:	Undergraduate
Program leader:	Shalva Dzebisashvili
Study language:	Georgian
Qualification:	Bachelor in Political Science
Program capacity:	180
Program permission:	Enrollment of students in the first level of academic higher education (bachelor programs) is carried out based on the results of the unified national exams or by the order of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia No. 224/N (December 29, 2011). Students are enrolled based on administrative registration and the order of the Rector.
Program goals:	The program objective is to educate specialists in political science with high competence and liberal values of humanity and promote by that the democratic development and wellbeing of the Georgian society and international community. Students will be primarily given a fundamental knowledge of theories in political science as well as major tendencies and research approaches that are instrumental in developing analytical skills. The program graduates can be employed in international organizations and institutions based in Georgia, NGOs working in relevant issue-areas, public and state agencies such as ministry of foreign affairs, as well as in local municipalities, party structures or national parliament at various junior positions such as junior specialist, program assistant, campaign coordinator, service providing specialist, junior manager or consulate department specialist.
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes:	interactive lectures critical analysis limited research discussion/debate group assignment project problem solution case review and analysis (case study) presentation
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Date of approval:	01-01-1970
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Teaching Process Characteristics:	To obtain a bachelor's degree in Political Science, a student needs to complete 180 ECTS, composed of 6 ECTS from the humanitarian-social block, 6 ECTS from the STEM block, 6 ECTS from the skills block,144 ECTS from the core subjects of the program, 18 ECTS of free credits. The teaching language of the program is Georgian, with separate English-language components. Accordingly, all components are taught mainly in Georgian, except for those courses where English-language literature is used.

Humanitarian-Social Block


Code	Subject	ECTS	Semester
ANTH3130	Basics of Cultural Anthropology	6	1
BUSN4433	Economy, business, management	6	1
COIN1515	Comparative and International Education	6	1
HIST1222	History of Russian occupation in Georgia	6	1
LAWB1177	Thinking and Morality	6	1
LAWB1195	Citizenship in the modern world	6	1
LITR1212	The great Books	6	1
MUSI0011		6	1
	Total ECTS to be taken:	6

STEM Block


Code	Subject	ECTS	Semester
MATH1414	Analytical and Quantitative Reasoning	6	4
STEM0003	Experiments that changed the world	6	4
STEM0004	Game theory	6	4
STEM0005	Modern technologies	6	4
STEM0007	Mathematics and Civilizations	6	4
STEM0010	Logic	6	4
STEM0011	Computational reasoning	6	4
STEM0012	Biology and Health of the Human	6	4
	Total ECTS to be taken:	6

Skills Block


Code	Subject	ECTS	Semester
LAWB1155	Debates and Critical Thinking	6	2
STEM0002	Ingenuity, entrepreneurship and technology	6	2
STEM0013	Basics of Cyber Hygiene	6	2
STEM0014	Hiking - Field Practice	6	2
STEM0018	AI in Everyday Life	6	2
	Total ECTS to be taken:	6

Program Core


Code	Subject	ECTS	Semester
ENGL1214		6	1
KART1515	Special Course in the Official Language	6	1
HIST1118	Civilizations and Mankind Development	6	1
POLI1265	Introduction in Political Science I	6	1
POLI1266	Introduction in Political Science II	6	2
POLI1145	Georgian Government and Politics	6	2
POLI2240	Political Ideologies	6	2
POLI2230	Political Sociology	6	2
POLI3230	Introduction to Comparative Politics	6	3
POLI2220	World Politics	6	3
ECON1101		6	3
IREL4042	Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Concepts	6	3
POLI3105	Qualitative Research Methods in Politics	6	3
IREL1230	Research Design	6	4
POLI4110	Religion and politics	6	4
IREL2225	Geopolitics	6	4
POLI3205	South Caucasus Comparative Politics	6	4
KART1220	Academic Writing	6	5
POLI2210	Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict	6	5
IREL1335	EU Policies and Institutions	6	5
POLI4105	Democracy, Elections and Electoral Systems	6	6
POLI3145	EU enlargement and integration issues and challenges: on the example of the Visegrad countries.	6	6
POLI4566		12	6
	Total ECTS to be taken:	144

Program Elective


Code	Subject	ECTS
COMM4120	Introduction to Public Relations	6
HIST1230	Introduction to the History of Georgia	6
IREL1225	World Politics II: Cold War	6
IREL1233	Introduction to International Law	6
IREL1315	Politics and Government of Turkey	6
IREL1320	Russian Politics and Government	6
IREL3264	Basics of Cyber-security Strategy	6
JMMB3120	Media and Politics	6
MGMT2110	Basics of Management	6
POLI3110	International Organizations	6
POLI3206		6
POLI3250	Political Parties and Party Systems	6
POLI3251	Introduction to Statistics for Politics and International Relations	6
POLI3252	Policy Planning Practical Course	6
POLI4111	Democracy and Populism	6
POLI4112	Machiavelli, More, Hobbes	6
PUBL4110	Introduction to the Public Policy Analysis	6
	Total ECTS to be taken:	18

Matrix Of Privequisites

Point	GPA	The university assessment	The general assessment in Georgia
97-100	4,00	A+	A	Excellent
94-96	3,75	A
91-93	3,50	A-
87-90	3,25	B+		Very good
84-86	3,00	B	B
81-83	2,75	B-
77-80	2,50	C+	C	good
74-76	2,25	C
71-73	2,00	C-
67-70	1,75	D+	D	Satisfactory
64-66	1,50	D
61-63	1,25	D-
51-60	1,00	E	E	Sufficient
Not passed
41-50		FX	FX	Insufficient
<40		F	F	Failed