CAS MA at Boston University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. CAS MA 123Calculus I
  2. CAS MA 121Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 1
  3. CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2
• 1. CAS MA 121Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 1
  2. CAS MA 123Calculus I
  3. CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2

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 CAS MA coursework.

• CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2opens 22 courses (1 directly)
• CAS MA 124Calculus 2opens 21 courses (2 directly)
• CAS MA 225Multivariate Calculusopens 20 courses (14 directly)
• CAS MA 230Honors-Level Vector Calculusopens 20 courses (14 directly)
• CAS MA 226Differential Equationsopens 8 courses (7 directly)
• CAS MA 231Honors-Level Differential Equationsopens 8 courses (6 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 CAS MA 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 42 CAS MA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 3 more CAS MA 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 CAS MA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 9 courses deep, ending at CAS MA 575

  1. CAS MA 231Honors-Level Differential Equations
  2. CAS MA 226Differential Equations
  3. ENG EK 500Probability with Statistical Applications
  4. CAS MA 575Linear Models

• 7 courses deep, ending at CAS MA 512

  1. CAS MA 230Honors-Level Vector Calculus
  2. CAS MA 225Multivariate Calculus
  3. CAS MA 511Introduction to Analysis I

• 7 courses deep, ending at CAS MA 556

  1. CAS MA 230Honors-Level Vector Calculus
  2. CAS MA 225Multivariate Calculus
  3. CAS MA 555Numerical Analysis I

• 4 courses deep, ending at CAS MA 568

  1. CAS MA 115Statistics 1
  2. CAS MA 116Statistics 2
  3. CAS MA 214Applied Statistics

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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Department events

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