HCSA at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HCSA coursework.

• HCSA 5501Introduction to Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HCSA 5510Counseling and Advising in Higher Educationopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HCSA 5520Multicultural Issues in Higher Education and Student Affairsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HCSA 5521Introduction to Research and Assessment in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HCSA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 8 HCSA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 8 more HCSA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HCSA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at HCSA 5511

  1. HCSA 5501Introduction to Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs
  2. HCSA 5511Legal and Ethical Issues in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs

• 2 courses deep, ending at HCSA 5541

  1. HCSA 5510Counseling and Advising in Higher Education
  2. HCSA 5541Group Facilitation

• 2 courses deep, ending at HCSA 5580

  1. HCSA 5520Multicultural Issues in Higher Education and Student Affairs
  2. HCSA 5580Advanced Multicultural Issues in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs

• 2 courses deep, ending at HCSA 5581

  1. HCSA 5521Introduction to Research and Assessment in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs
  2. HCSA 5581Advanced Research and Assessment in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HCSA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HCSA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

HCSA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cal Poly SLO campus feed.