Political Science 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 POLS coursework.

• POLS 003Comparative Politicsopens 7 courses (6.5 directly)
• POLS 001American Political Systemopens 3 courses (2.5 directly)
• POLS 105US Environmental Policy and Lawopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• POLS 378Honors Thesis In Political Scienceopens 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 POLS 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 21 POLS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 126 more POLS 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 POLS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 225

  1. ECO 001Principles of Economics 0
  2. POLS 225International Political Economy

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 317

  1. POLS 001American Political System
  2. POLS 317The American Presidency

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 322

  1. POLS 003Comparative Politics
  2. POLS 322The Politics of Data

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 323

  1. IR 010Introduction to World Politics
  2. POLS 323Politics Of The European Union

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for POLS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under POLS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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