Semester 1fall
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
A suggested order for the 18 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.
Generated from Cornell University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 1fall
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Semester 4spring
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GOVT coursework.
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 GOVT 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 GOVT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 352 more GOVT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on GOVT, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Introduction to Public Policy4 required
Introductory Microeconomicschoose 1
AP Microeconomics score of 5; IB HL Economics score of 7
1 course from1 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: GOVT 6029
The deepest prerequisite chains in GOVT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at GOVT 6049
2 courses deep, ending at GOVT 1827
2 courses deep, ending at GOVT 3051
2 courses deep, ending at GOVT 3283
Introductory Sociologychoose 1
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Statisticschoose 1
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All GOVT courses in the Cornell catalog
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Use your school emailInstructors on GOVT sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.
No clubs or organizations on record under GOVT yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
GOVT does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.