IR at Lehigh 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 IR coursework.

• IR 225International Political Economyopens 3 courses (2.5 directly)
• POLS 225International Political Economyopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• ASIA 163U.S.-China Relationsopens 1 course (0.1 directly)
• IR 163U.S.-China Relationsopens 1 course (0.1 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 IR 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 41 IR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more IR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on IR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in IR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at IR 222

  1. ECO 001Principles of Economics 0
  2. IR 225International Political Economy
  3. IR 222Political Economy of North-South Relations

• 3 courses deep, ending at IR 364

  1. IR 010Introduction to World Politics
  2. ASIA 163U.S.-China Relations
  3. IR 364Chinese Foreign Policy

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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