PADM at Virginia Commonwealth 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 PADM coursework.

• PADM 624Empirical Analysis for Evidence-Based Governanceopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SOCY 602Applications of Sociological Research Methodsopens 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 PADM 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 20 PADM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 32 more PADM 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 PADM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PADM 605

  1. SOCY 601Sociological Research Methods
  2. SOCY 602Applications of Sociological Research Methods
  3. PADM 605Survey Research Methods

• 3 courses deep, ending at PADM 689

  1. PADM 623Research Methods for Government and Public Affairs
  2. PADM 624Empirical Analysis for Evidence-Based Governance
  3. PADM 689Seminar in Public Administration: Integration of Theory and Practice

• 2 courses deep, ending at PADM 622

  1. PADM 609Financial Management in Government
  2. PADM 622Public Sector Budgeting

• 2 courses deep, ending at PADM 637

  1. PADM 607Public Human Resource Management
  2. PADM 637Organic Human Resources Management

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PADM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PADM yet.

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Department events

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