SOPA at Rice University

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 SOPA coursework.

• ECON 209Applied Econometricsopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• SOPA 309Applied Econometrics for Policy Evaluationopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• POLI 338Policy Analysisopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• SOSC 301Policy Analysisopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• SOPA 400Sopa Capstone Research Seminar Iopens 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 SOPA 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 12 SOPA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 4 more SOPA 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 SOPA, 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 SOPA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at SOPA 401

  1. SOSC 301Policy Analysis
  2. POLI 338Policy Analysis
  3. SOPA 400Sopa Capstone Research Seminar I
  4. SOPA 401Sopa Capstone Research Seminar II

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOPA 309

  1. DSCI 301Probability and Statistics for Data Science
  2. SOPA 309Applied Econometrics for Policy Evaluation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SOPA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOPA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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