POLI at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 POLI coursework.

• POLI 100American Democracy in Changing Timesopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• POLI 150International Relations and Global Politicsopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• POLI 281Data in Politics I: An Introductionopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• POLI 700Core Seminar on American Political Institutionsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• POLI 783Probability and Statisticsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• POLI 784Methods for Causal Inferenceopens 2 courses (2 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 POLI 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 47 POLI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 210 more POLI 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 POLI, 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 POLI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLI 150L

  1. POLI 150International Relations and Global Politics
  2. POLI 150LInternational Relations and Global Politics Research Laboratory

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLI 216

  1. POLI 281Data in Politics I: An Introduction
  2. POLI 216Survey Research Methodology

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLI 404

  1. POLI 100American Democracy in Changing Times
  2. POLI 404Race, Immigration, and Urban Politics

• 2 courses deep, ending at POLI 429

  1. POLI 130Introduction to Comparative Politics
  2. POLI 429Diversity and Politics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for POLI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under POLI yet.

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Department events

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