PS at North Carolina State University

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 PS 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 29 PS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 59 more PS 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 PS, 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 PS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PS 432

  1. ST 311Introduction to Statistics
  2. PS 371Research Methodology of Political Science
  3. PS 432Violence, Terrorism, and Public Policy

• 2 courses deep, ending at PS 301

  1. PS 201American Politics and Government
  2. PS 301The Presidency and Congress

• 2 courses deep, ending at PS 408

  1. PS 208Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
  2. PS 408Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Capstone

• 2 courses deep, ending at PS 431

  1. PS 231Introduction to International Relations
  2. PS 431The United Nations and Global Order

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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