Building the department map…
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 New Jersey City 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 POLI 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 POLI 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 42 POLI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more POLI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on POLI, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Courses: 12 Creditsall required
Electives (21 credits total)*2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select at least 9 credits from the following 200 level courses:; Select at least 12 credits from the following 300 level courses:; *Up to 6 credits of Co Op Education may be included in the elective total
Select 3 credits from the following seminar coursesall required
Total15 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in POLI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at POLI 322
3 courses deep, ending at POLI 440
3 courses deep, ending at POLI 499
2 courses deep, ending at POLI 334
All POLI courses in the NJCU catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for POLI yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under POLI yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
POLI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the NJCU campus feed.