POLSCI at University of California, Berkeley

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 POLSCI coursework.

• POLSCI 1Introduction to American Politicsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POLSCI 124AWar!opens 1 course (1 directly)
• POLSCI 157AConstitutional Law of the United Statesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POLSCI 231AQuantitative Analysis in Political Researchopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POLSCI 232AFormal Models of Political Scienceopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POLSCI 236AQuantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar: The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Sopens 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 POLSCI 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 22 POLSCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 294 more POLSCI 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 POLSCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLSCI 103

  1. POLSCI 1Introduction to American Politics
  2. POLSCI 103Congress

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLSCI 124B

  1. POLSCI 124AWar!
  2. POLSCI 124BWar in the Middle East

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLSCI 137L

  1. POLSCI 3Introduction to Empirical Analysis and Quantitative Methods
  2. POLSCI 137LDemocracy

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLSCI 157B

  1. POLSCI 157AConstitutional Law of the United States
  2. POLSCI 157BConstitutional Law of the United States

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under POLSCI yet.

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