Students must satisfy the programme requirements as set out in the Faculty Handbook for the year in which they were accepted to the programme.

All students of Public Sector Management are required to read GOVT1006.GT423 cannot be substituted for GOVT1006.

Students who wish to do any Level II or Level III International Relations course must do BOTH GOVT1000 and GOVT1008.

Students who wish to do any Level II or Level III Public Sector Management course must do BOTH GOVT1000 and GOVT1006.

Students who wish to do any Level II or Level III Political Science courses must do BOTH GOVT1000 and GOVT1001.

All three (3) Majors in the Department require students to do GOVT2013, a 6 credit course.

All courses are 3 credits except where otherwise indicated. Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are 6‐credit courses, offered over 2 semesters.

Where the same course is listed for both a Major and a Minor, it is counted only ONCE, therefore, an additional approved course must also be taken to complete the required total of 60 credits.

The following are the requirements, which you must fulfill in order to be awarded a Major and Minor from the Department of Government.

•  Major/Minor

International Relations and Public Sector Management Majors are required to take GOVT2013, but Minors are not.

To be approved for the Criminology Minor, students must have at least a
cumulative GPA of 2.7.To be approved for a Minor in the Department of Government, students
should have completed at least two (2) of the Level II/Level III courses with at least a “B” grade and should also have an overall cumulative GPA of 2.7.

• Pre‐requisites

Public Sector Mgmt (Major) ‐ GOVT1000, GOVT1006 and SOCI1001
Political Science (Major) ‐ GOVT1000, GOVT1001 and SOCI1001
International Relations (Major) ‐ GOVT1000, GOVT1008, and SOCI1001

• Co‐requisites

The co‐requisites for the courses above are either ECON1005 or SOCI1005 and SOCI1001.

10. Admission Priority to Finalizing Students
Priority will be given to finalizing students who need a particular course to graduate. Other students will be admitted on a first‐come‐first‐serve basis.

11. An Undergraduate Coursework Accountability Statement is to be attached by students registered for undergraduate courses in the Faculty to the front of any document submitted as a component of coursework save for when coursework consists of an invigilated examination, no accountability statement is required and where the submission is entirely in electronic form, the student shall make an equivalent declaration electronically. (Students may download a copy of the Statement from the here).

12. Exemption Without Credit for CAPE Subjects
Students registered in the Faculty who have obtained a Grade I‐IV in CAPE subjects will be allowed exemption without credit as follows:
Economics Unit 1 exemption from ECON1001 & ECON1011
Economics Unit 2 exemption from ECON1002 & ECON1012
Statistical Analysis exemption from ECON1005
Sociology Unit 1 exemption from SOCI1002
Accounting Unit 1 exemption from ACCT1005
Accounting Unit 2 exemption from ACCT1003
Pure Mathematics Units 1 & 2 exemption from ECON1003
Application for exemption must be made online via Automated Student Request System (ASRS) at http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/socsci/.
Note: Students granted exemption without credit due to CAPE should register for Level I replacement course(s) of their choosing.

13. Anti‐Requisites
Anti‐requisites are courses that cannot be taken together for credit.