After SPA 2025
Gateway: SPA 2025
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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 Wayne State University’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 SPA 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 SPA 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 46 SPA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more SPA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on SPA, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Language Requirement2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select six credits from the following:
Literature, Culture, and History Requirement2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select nine credits from the following:
Electives1 required · verify with the official sheet
Select nine credits from the following:; An additional three credits in SPA at the 3000 level or higher; An additional six credits in SPA at the 5000 level or higher; Students will complete exit interviews and a research project linked to a 5000-level course or higher.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: SPA 2025
Gateway: SPA 3025
Gateway: SPA 3300
Gateway: SPA 4610
The deepest prerequisite chains in SPA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
8 courses deep, ending at SPA 5570
7 courses deep, ending at SPA 5300
7 courses deep, ending at SPA 6400
4 courses deep, ending at SPA 9994
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Global Experience1 required
Students must fulfill a Global Experience requirement. Options for fulfilling the requirement include: 1) an internship at a local agency that deals with global issues or is a global organization ( GLS 5500 ); 2) study abroad or internship abroad; 3) field work or study abroad that is part of a specific course.
Electives from Three Focus Areas15 required · verify with the official sheet
Students must take a minimum of fifteen credits from the following areas of focus: Global Politics and Economics, Global Health and Environment, Global Culture and Identities.
Global Cultures and Identities2 required · verify with the official sheet
This focus area centers on questions related to global cultures, belief systems expressed through various types of cultural artifacts (including visual art, artisanry, literature, film and media), and peoples and identities, over time and geographical areas, in conjunction with questions of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.
Global Health and Environment2 required · verify with the official sheet
This focus area concentrates on issues related to global public health, medical systems, and environmental issues such as population, pollution, and climate change over time and geographical areas, in conjunction with questions of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.
Global Politics and Economies2 required · verify with the official sheet
This focus area takes into account global political, sociological, economic, labor, and business theories, trends, histories, and configurations over time and geographical areas, in conjunction with questions related to gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.
All SPA courses in the Wayne State catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under SPA yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SPA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Wayne State campus feed.