POL SCI at University of California, Los Angeles

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. POL SCI 188SAIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitators
  2. POL SCI 188SBIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitators

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 POL SCI coursework.

• POL SCI 200BRegression Analysis for Social Scienceopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• POL SCI 200CCausal Inference for Social Scienceopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• POL SCI 188SBIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitatorsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POL SCI 200YData Analysis Workshop Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• POL SCI 204BGame Theory in Politics IIopens 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 POL SCI 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 64 POL SCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 104 more POL SCI 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 POL SCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at POL SCI 200Z

  1. POL SCI 200AProbability and Inference for Social Science
  2. POL SCI 200BRegression Analysis for Social Science
  3. POL SCI 200CCausal Inference for Social Science
  4. POL SCI 200YData Analysis Workshop I
  5. POL SCI 200ZData Analysis Workshop II

• 3 courses deep, ending at POL SCI 188SC

  1. POL SCI 188SAIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitators
  2. POL SCI 188SBIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitators
  3. POL SCI 188SCIndividual Studies for USIE Facilitators

• 3 courses deep, ending at POL SCI 204C

  1. POL SCI 204AGame Theory in Politics I
  2. POL SCI 204BGame Theory in Politics II
  3. POL SCI 204CGame Theory in Politics III

• 2 courses deep, ending at POL SCI 115E

  1. POL SCI 10Introduction to Political Theory
  2. POL SCI 115EHumanist Practice and Civic Culture

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for POL SCI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under POL SCI yet.

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Department events

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