Associate of Arts - Political Science - Transfer to a California State University

Berkeley City College offers an Associate of Arts in Political Science for transfer program.

Students who successfully complete this transfer program in Political Science earn specific guarantees for transfer to the California State University (CSU) system: admission to a CSU with junior status and priority admission to a CSU campus and to a program or major in Political Science or a similar major. Students transferring to a CSU campus will be required to complete no more than 60 units after transfer to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Students who complete the program will be able to: • Define the core concepts of political science (government, regime, state, institutions, sovereignty, constitution, democracy, authoritarianism, and globalization). • Discuss the constitutional, institutional, cultural and institutional structures that produce and maintain political, social and ethnic inequalities. • Identify, compare, and contrast the major theoretical perspectives in the discipline. • Interpret political science research through a working knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research designs.