POLI at Rice 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 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 75 POLI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 118 more POLI 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 POLI, 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 POLI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at POLI 420

  1. COMP 435Election Systems, Technologies, and Administration
  2. POLI 420Election Systems, Technologies, and Administration

• 5 courses deep, ending at POLI 437

  1. SOSC 301Policy Analysis
  2. POLI 338Policy Analysis
  3. POLI 437Education Policy

• 4 courses deep, ending at POLI 441

  1. ENST 441Governing the Environmental Commons
  2. POLI 441Governing the Environmental Commons

• 3 courses deep, ending at POLI 349

  1. ASIA 349Urban Lab Istanbul
  2. POLI 349Urban Lab Istanbul

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for POLI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under POLI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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