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 Loyola Marymount University’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 POLS 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 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 39 POLS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 95 more POLS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on POLS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Lower Division Requirementsall required
Select two of the following:; Subtotal
Upper Division Requirements1 required
Select 6 courses, inluding at least one 5000-level seminar; Subtotal
Lower Division Requirementsall required
Subtotal
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: POLS 2000
Gateway: POLS 2100
The deepest prerequisite chains in POLS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at POLS 5810
3 courses deep, ending at POLS 4100
2 courses deep, ending at POLS 3260
2 courses deep, ending at POLS 3420
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Upper Division Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select two of the following in one or more of the following areas:; Law and Justice; Urban Politics, Public Administration, and Policy Analysis; Urban Culture; Urban-Ethnic Communities; Urban Analysis; Subtotal
All POLS courses in the LMU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for POLS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under POLS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
Political Science does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the LMU campus feed.