Programs · Barnard College · 2025-2026
Political Science at Barnard College: what LionPlan checks
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Tell us your school, your major, and what you have taken. A course card then shows what a class satisfies (“Satisfies Probability / Statistics”) and what it unlocks (“Opens up 7 more courses”), plus the section time and instructor rating.
The groups below are the ones LionPlan actually checks for this program. They were transcribed from the 2025-2026 Bulletin. Confirm them with your school before you register.
Three introductory lectures, three subfields
AttestedYou confirm this yourself. I have completed three introductory POLS lectures with Barnard faculty, in three different subfields.
One introductory 1000- or 3000-level lecture in three of the four subfields: American Government and Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory. You certify this because nothing in a course record says which subfield a course belongs to, and Barnard's POLS numbering does not encode it. Note the second condition too: to count as introductory credit these must be taken with BARNARD faculty — intro courses taken at Columbia count toward your electives only.
Five electives
N matching5 courses matching POLS courses, numbered 1000 to 4999.
Five political science courses. The department counts anything in the political science section of the Barnard catalogue, at Barnard or Columbia — "including introductory lecture courses and colloquia". An intro lecture taken at Columbia, or a colloquium taken before your final two semesters, lands here. POLS BC3799 Independent Study counts only if approved for 3 or 4 points, which we cannot see.
Two colloquia
AttestedYou confirm this yourself. I have completed two Barnard political science colloquia in my final two semesters.
Two colloquia, taken with Barnard faculty during your final two semesters. Columbia seminars do not fulfil this. You certify it because the colloquia sit at the 3000 level alongside the introductory lectures — no course-number rule can tell the two apart, and the seminars are re-titled every term, so no title rule can either. A colloquium taken earlier than your final two semesters counts as an elective instead.