PR at West Virginia 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 PR coursework.

• ADV 315SAdvertising Copywritingopens 4 courses (1.3 directly)
• PR 324SPublic Relations Writing and Applicationsopens 4 courses (1.3 directly)
• STCM 315Strategic Advertising and Public Relations Writingopens 4 courses (1.3 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 PR 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 PR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more PR 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 PR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PR 347S

  1. ADPR 215Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations
  2. ADV 315SAdvertising Copywriting
  3. PR 347SMartin Hall Agency: Public Relations Tactics

• 2 courses deep, ending at PR 301

  1. ADV 215Principles of Advertising
  2. PR 301Writing for Public Relations

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WVU campus feed.