ARTS at Boston College

A suggested order for the 16 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 1 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 ARTS coursework.

• ARTS 1156Imagemaking with Photoshop and Illustratoropens 4 courses (4 directly)
• ARTS 1101Drawing I: Foundationsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 1125Innovation through Design Thinkingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 1161Photography Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 1163Introduction to Digital Photographyopens 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 ARTS 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 16 ARTS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more ARTS 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 ARTS, 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 ARTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTS 2205

  1. ARTS 1125Innovation through Design Thinking
  2. ARTS 2205Information and Communication Design

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTS 2206

  1. ARTS 1101Drawing I: Foundations
  2. ARTS 2206Drawing 2: The Art of Portraiture

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTS 2250

  1. ARTS 1156Imagemaking with Photoshop and Illustrator
  2. ARTS 2250Graphic Design

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ARTS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Austen, Hartmut
• Beckmen, Kiana Ruth
• Bhattacharya, Sunanda
• Brewer, Kristoffer T
• Burgess, Quinn M
• Chong, Sammy
• Cole, Caleb
• Cooney, Lynne
• Cooper, Mark
• Craig, Ashley
• Dept, Dept
• Eduardo, Pablo
• Engstrom, Courtney Marie
• Friedman, Georgie Gordon
• Friedman, J Georgie
• Gallagher, Sheila E
• Goodman, Robert
• Henriques, Carissa
• Ivy, Candice M
• Kodi, Khalid I
• Lacey, Sharon
• Lauriat, Michele J
• Leventhal, Drew
• Littell, Matthew
• Loischild, Rachel
• Mitchell, Leila L
• O'Brien, Edward F
• Stock, Courtney
• Weisberg, Debra

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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