<p>I am hoping to go to Michigan next year as a freshman. I applied to the political science course and want to focus on Comparative Politics and World Politics. However I am also very interested in current affairs and international relations. There isnt a specific course called international relations or foreign policy, but under the world politics description on the Michigan website it states: "[world politics] allows a student to specialize in an area such as foreign policy,regional subsystems or international systems". The website does not offer much detail into the course. Does anyone know anything about this course and how much freedom there is to study areas or categories of interests? Any info would be great.</p>
<p>International Relations tends to fit into World and Comparative politics at Michigan. The intro level courses are 140 and 160, and the upper level ones in those topics will be around 340 and 360. If you're interested in world politics, 160 would be a good place to start, although I personally just skipped the intro level stuff (I don't think most people do that, but I went to a lot of polsci programs and the same stuff over again is boring. 160-type-classes, even in dumbed down levels, isn't usually offered in high schools, though.). Also, in polsci, you just have to take classes, at any level, in 4 of the 5 categories, I believe, and then you just fulfill requirements. My advisor for polisci was very liberal about what I could use to fulfill requirements.</p>