PA at University of Illinois Chicago

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 PA coursework.

• PA 434Intermediate Data Management and Analysisopens 7 courses (5 directly)
• CHSC 422Community Healthopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Researchopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• CHSC 446Research Methods in Community Healthopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PA 541Advanced Data Analysis I.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 PA 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 31 PA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 55 more PA 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 PA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at PA 447

  1. CHSC 421Community Health
  2. CHSC 422Community Health
  3. CHSC 446Research Methods in Community Health
  4. PA 447Survey Planning and Design

• 4 courses deep, ending at PA 542

  1. PA 402Introduction to Data Management and Analysis
  2. PA 434Intermediate Data Management and Analysis
  3. PA 541Advanced Data Analysis I.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PA 452

  1. ENGL 160Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
  2. ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
  3. PA 452The UIC Freshwater Lab Course

• 2 courses deep, ending at PA 546

  1. PA 545Research Topics in Public Administration I.
  2. PA 546Research Topics in Public Administration II.

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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