PPA at Colorado State University

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 PPA coursework.

• POLS 665Public Policy Analysisopens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• PPA 665Public Policy Analysisopens 1 course (0.3 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 PPA 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 18 PPA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more PPA 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 PPA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PPA 555

  1. POLS 625Quantitative Methods of Political Research I
  2. POLS 665Public Policy Analysis
  3. PPA 555Environmental Law and Policy

• 2 courses deep, ending at PPA 540

  1. PPA 500Research Methods for Public Policy and Admin
  2. PPA 540International Policy Toolkit

• 2 courses deep, ending at PPA 543

  1. PPA 501Program Evaluation and Quantitative Methods
  2. PPA 543Evidence-Based Decision Making

• 2 courses deep, ending at PPA 575

  1. PPA 553Public Organizational Management and Behavior
  2. PPA 575Public Service Administration

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PPA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PPA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PPA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Colorado State campus feed.