PS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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 PS coursework.

• PS 301The US Constitution Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PS 302The US Constitution IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PS 385Politics of the European Unionopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PS 390American Foreign Policyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PS 531Quant Pol Analysis IIopens 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 PS 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 113 PS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 60 more PS 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 PS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PS 305

  1. PS 101Intro to US Gov & Pol
  2. PS 301The US Constitution I
  3. PS 305The US Supreme Court

• 3 courses deep, ending at PS 485

  1. PS 240Intro to Comp Politics
  2. PS 385Politics of the European Union
  3. PS 485The Politics of Transatlantic Relations

• 3 courses deep, ending at PS 532

  1. PS 530Quant Pol Analysis I
  2. PS 531Quant Pol Analysis II
  3. PS 532Quant Pol Analysis III

• 2 courses deep, ending at PS 220

  1. PS 100Intro to Political Science
  2. PS 220Intro to Public Policy

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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