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 University of Alabama at Birmingham’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 PSC 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 PSC 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 23 PSC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 64 more PSC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PSC, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Blazer Core Curriculum15 required
General Electives15 required · verify with the official sheet
Political Science - Requirements for the major must include at least 9 hours of 400-level coursework
Political Science Major Electives15 required
Select 27 hours of additional PSC courses:
Blazer Core Curriculum15 required
General Electives15 required
Required International Studiesall required
1 course from1 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PSC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at PSC 497
3 courses deep, ending at PSC 431
2 courses deep, ending at PSC 360
2 courses deep, ending at PSC 402
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
ITS Internship1 required
Economic Awarenesschoose 1
1 course from1 required
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1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
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Electives9 required
All PSC courses in the UAB 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 PSC yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under PSC yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
PSC does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UAB campus feed.