Cabrini University Political Science to Marymount

The Political Science and International Relations program at Marymount University is an ideal place for students from the political science major at Cabrini University to complete their undergraduate program given the similarities between Cabrini’s and Marymount’s campus environments, dedicated faculty, small class sizes, and similar program requirements. Cabrini political science students completing their majors at Marymount also have access to the resources of the Washington DC area for site visits, internships, study abroad options, and career opportunities.

Marymount’s transfer advisors and Political Science faculty will work with transferring Cabrini students to transfer seamlessly to Marymount so that they can complete their coursework and graduate on time. All political science courses taken at Cabrini will count towards the Marymount political science degree.

A complete description of the requirements for the Political Science and International Relations major at Marymount is here.

Counting Cabrini courses for Marymount degree requirements

The political science major at Cabrini begins with a series of required courses: POL 205 (Introduction to Political Science), POL 206 (Comparative Government), and POL 315 (Introduction to International Relations); these will count for the required sequence at Marymount. Students who have completed Cabrini’s research component for the political science major – HIS 401 (Historiography Seminar), SOC/PSY 341 (Research Methods I), or MAT 118 (Introduction to Statistics) – will have that course count for a Marymount Political Science elective if they are entering Marymount as sophomores or juniors, and will have that course count in place of Marymount’s research methods course (POL 250) if they are entering Marymount as seniors. Cabrini students who have taken PHI 320 (Political Philosophy) at Cabrini will have that count for POL 210 at Marymount or as a Political Science elective, whichever they prefer.

All politics electives taken at Cabrini will count as Marymount Political Science electives.

Marymount Political Science and International Relations requirements and their Cabrini equivalents

*Cabrini students have the option of counting PHI 320 in place of Marymount’s POL 210 or in place of a Marymount political science elective.

**Cabrini students entering Marymount as seniors will have their research component course count in place of Marymount’s POL 250; Cabrini students entering Marymount as juniors or below will have their research component course count as a Marymount political science elective.