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Government and Public Service is an advanced, upper-level, Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree program.

Students begin classes in the program once they have completed their preparatory lower-division coursework through Arizona Online, numerous community colleges, or other academic and military institutions. No matter where students come to us along the educational journey, our advisors are ready to help successfully guide them from application to graduation.

Curriculum Delivery

CAST offers the BA Government and Public Service program at Arizona locations across the state and online. Courses combine virtual and traditional academic experiences and feature live synchronous sessions where students and instructors work together to discover, learn, and solve problems. All online lectures are recorded and made available for students whose schedules do not allow them to attend the synchronous class meetings. Moreover, our faculty are available to assist students through both scheduled office hours and live online support.

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Hands-On Learning

Coursework is designed to maximize students’ ability to learn by doing. The program features state-of-the-art online technologies to engage students in interactive assessments and exercises. CAST is dedicated to applied learning because it provides the real-world experience both the workplace and employers demand.

Sample Courses

GPSV 441: American Foreign Policy

An analysis of American foreign policy from the Cold War to the present; congressional-executive clashes over foreign policy control; and approaches to policy analysis.

GPSV 444: Comparative Political Revolution

Examination of the causes and consequences of 20th-century revolutions and the revolutionary process, with emphasis on contemporary events.

GPSV 462: American Constitutional Law

A theoretical study of the development of U.S. constitutional law defining the structure and distribution of governmental powers through an analysis of primary documents and landmark Supreme Court cases.