HSS at Slippery Rock 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 HSS coursework.

• HSS 330Intelligence Operationsopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• HSS 230Risk Analysis and Strategic Planningopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HSS 340Intelligence for Homeland Securityopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HSS 260Emergency Management Planningopens 1 course (0.5 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 HSS 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 17 HSS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more HSS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HSS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HSS 460

  1. HSS 210Fundamentals of Terrorism
  2. HSS 330Intelligence Operations
  3. HSS 340Intelligence for Homeland Security
  4. HSS 460Capstone in Homeland Security

• 3 courses deep, ending at HSS 320

  1. HSS 120Introduction to Homeland Security
  2. HSS 230Risk Analysis and Strategic Planning
  3. HSS 320Protecting Infrastructure and Key Assets

• 3 courses deep, ending at HSS 360

  1. HSS 130Principles of Emergency Management
  2. HSS 260Emergency Management Planning
  3. HSS 360Social Dimensions of Disaster

• 2 courses deep, ending at HSS 370

  1. HSS 250Managing Natural, Man-Made and Technological Disasters
  2. HSS 370Research in Disasters and Emergency Management

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HSS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HSS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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