Political Science at Northeastern 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 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 53 POLS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 64 more POLS 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 POLS, 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 POLS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at POLS 9996

  1. POLS 9000PhD Candidacy Achieved
  2. POLS 9990Dissertation Term 1
  3. POLS 9991Dissertation Term 2
  4. POLS 9996Dissertation Continuation

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 2325

  1. ENGW 1102First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers
  2. POLS 2325Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 2345

  1. POLS 1150American Government
  2. POLS 2345Urban Policies and Politics

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLS 2370

  1. INTL 1101Globalization and International Affairs
  2. POLS 2370Religion and Politics

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 Northeastern campus feed.