Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from University of Nebraska at Kearney’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PSCI coursework.
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 PSCI 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 8 PSCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 57 more PSCI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PSCI, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Political Science Coreall required
Political Science Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select at least 3 credit hours from five separate subfields:; Political Thought; American Government; Mass Political Behavior; Public Law; Public Policy Administration; Comparative Politics; International Relations
Political Science Electives1 required · verify with the official sheet
Take 12 hours of any PSCI course 200-499; It is strongly recommended that at least one elective course be in experiential learning: PSCI 456 Field Study (6 hours max), PSCI 475 Internship in Political Science (9 hours max) AND/OR PSCI 490 Directed Research
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PSCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at PSCI 486
2 courses deep, ending at PSCI 325
1 course from1 required
Political Science Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select at least 3 credit hours from five separate subfields:; Political Thought; American Government; Mass Political Behavior; Public Law; Public Policy Administration; Comparative Politics; International Relations
Political Science Electives1 required
Take 12 credit hours of any PSCI courses 200-499; It is strongly recommended that at least one elective course be in experiential learning: PSCI 456 Field Study (6 hours max), PSCI 475 Internship in Political Science (9 hours max) AND/OR PSCI 490 Directed Research
All PSCI courses in the UNK catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for PSCI yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under PSCI yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
PSCI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UNK campus feed.