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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SSW HB coursework.
Generated from Boston University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 SSW HB 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 7 SSW HB and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 6 more SSW HB courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: SSW HB 720
The deepest prerequisite chains in SSW HB. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at SSW HB 723
All SSW HB courses in the BU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for SSW HB yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under SSW HB yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SSW HB does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the BU campus feed.