PPA at Denison 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.

• PPA 201Sophomore Seminar (4 Credit Hours)opens 19 courses (19 directly)
• BLST 368Black Political Thought (4 Credit Hours)opens 1 course (1 directly)
• BLST 375Race and Law in US Politics (4 Credit Hours)opens 1 course (1 directly)
• INTL 265Human Rights in Global Perspectives (4 Credit Hours)opens 1 course (1 directly)
• PPA 345Human Rights in Global Perspectives (4 Credit Hours)opens 1 course (1 directly)
• PPA 351Principles of Grand Strategy (4 Credit Hours)opens 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 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 27 PPA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 20 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.

• 4 courses deep, ending at PPA 345

  1. INTL 265Human Rights in Global Perspectives (4 Credit Hours)
  2. PPA 345Human Rights in Global Perspectives (4 Credit Hours)

• 4 courses deep, ending at PPA 375

  1. BLST 375Race and Law in US Politics (4 Credit Hours)
  2. PPA 375Race and Law in US Politics (4 Credit Hours)

• 3 courses deep, ending at PPA 306

  1. PPA 102Introduction to Policymaking in Democracies (4 Credit Hours)
  2. PPA 201Sophomore Seminar (4 Credit Hours)
  3. PPA 306The American Presidency (4 Credit Hours)

• 3 courses deep, ending at PPA 352

  1. PPA 122Introduction to Global Governance (4 Credit Hours)
  2. PPA 351Principles of Grand Strategy (4 Credit Hours)
  3. PPA 352Applied Grand Strategy (4 Credit Hours)

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 Denison campus feed.