17 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 17 coursework.

• 17.803Political Science Laboratoryopens 6 courses (3 directly)
• 17.802Quantitative Research Methods II: Causal Inferenceopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• 14.32Econometric Data Scienceopens 1 course (1 directly)
• 17.804Quantitative Research Methods III: Generalized Linear Models and Extensionsopens 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 17 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 25 17 and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 140 more 17 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 17. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at 17.806

  1. 17.801Political Science Scope and Methods
  2. 17.803Political Science Laboratory
  3. 17.802Quantitative Research Methods II: Causal Inference
  4. 17.804Quantitative Research Methods III: Generalized Linear Models and Extensions
  5. 17.806Quantitative Research Methods IV: Advanced Topics

• 3 courses deep, ending at 17.C08

  1. 18.650[J] Fundamentals of Statistics
  2. 14.32Econometric Data Science
  3. 17.C08[J] Causal Inference

• 2 courses deep, ending at 17.210

  1. 17.200American Political Behavior I
  2. 17.210American Political Behavior II

• 2 courses deep, ending at 17.251

  1. 17.20Introduction to the American Political Process
  2. 17.251Congress and the American Political System I

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under 17 yet.

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