PADM at Cornell University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. PADM 5051Effective Academic Interactions
  2. PADM 5340Introduction to Evaluation
• 1. PADM 5055Presentation Skills
  2. PADM 5340Introduction to Evaluation

A suggested order for the 30 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.

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 PADM coursework.

• PADM 5340Introduction to Evaluationopens 2 courses (2 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 PADM 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 30 PADM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 76 more PADM 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 PADM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PADM 5341

  1. PADM 5051Effective Academic Interactions
  2. PADM 5340Introduction to Evaluation
  3. PADM 5341Outcome Evaluation

• 2 courses deep, ending at PADM 4717

  1. ECON 3030Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  2. PADM 4717Energy Transition: Policy, Financial, and Business Interactions

• 2 courses deep, ending at PADM 4858

  1. PADM 5210Intermediate Microeconomics for Public Affairs
  2. PADM 4858Business and Inequality

• 2 courses deep, ending at PADM 5012

  1. PADM 5010CIPA Public Affairs Colloquium
  2. PADM 5012Professional Development for Public Affairs

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PADM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PADM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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