Distribution of Undergraduate Classes and Other ?'s (PoliSci)

Graduate School
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<p>Hello. I will be a junior in the fall and currently registering for classes, preparing to line up LOR, GRE, rough drafts of SOP, etc., and I had a few questions.</p>

<p>I heard that graduate programs look down upon double majors as in they indicate a lack of depth and breadth in the subject (for me, political science). I was wondering if this was true or not. Also, is it better to have a higher number of courses in your field of focus i.e. international relations with fewer in the other fields or to have a solid foundation with like 3-4 in each and a few higher than that in my 1st and 2nd fields? </p>

<p>I guess that second one is a question of the degree of specialization at the undergraduate level. Are programs looking at candidates to round out their background or take all ready well-rounded candidates and specialize?</p>

<p>How much will studying at Alliance Fran</p>

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<p>Smoke&Mirrors,
Are looking into applying to Pol.Scien. MA programs? or other fields such as IR, Int.D, Econ? Do you have a regional focus?
And more important: what do you want to get out of your Master degree? (eg. teaching position, gov.policy related job, int. organizations, ngos, coorporations, etc?) </p>

<p>With respect to languages, i think a second or third language is always usefull (as long as you can write/speak it very well - not just "i took 2 years of spanish in high school"). French is more practical than Latin. So maybe perfecting your French or picking up a 3rd language would work better for you(any romance language is going to be easy if you know Latin).</p>