PUAD at George Mason University

Intro sequences

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

• 1. PUAD 502Administration in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
  2. PUAD 540Public Policy Process

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 PUAD coursework.

• PUAD 540Public Policy Processopens 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 PUAD 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 29 PUAD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 40 more PUAD 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 PUAD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PUAD 644

  1. PUAD 502Administration in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
  2. PUAD 540Public Policy Process
  3. PUAD 644Public Policy Models

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUAD 621

  1. PUAD 520Organization Theory and Management Behavior
  2. PUAD 621Principles and Practices in Government Organization and Management

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUAD 738

  1. PUAD 504Managing in the International Arena: Theory and Practice
  2. PUAD 738Issues in International Security

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUAD 781

  1. PUAD 680Public Technology Management
  2. PUAD 781Information Management: Technology and Policy

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PUAD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PUAD yet.

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Department events

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