ARCH at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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 ARCH coursework.

• ARCH 1101Architectural Design Iopens 18 courses (2.5 directly)
• ARCH 1132Architectural Representation IIopens 13 courses (0.5 directly)
• ARCH 1102Architectural Design IIopens 12 courses (1 directly)
• ARCH 2201Architectural Design IIIopens 11 courses (1.5 directly)
• ARCH 2231Architectural Representation IIIopens 11 courses (0.7 directly)
• ARCH 2241Architectural Technology Fundamentals Iopens 10 courses (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 ARCH 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 37 ARCH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 11 more ARCH 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 ARCH, 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 ARCH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 11 courses deep, ending at ARCH 4460

  1. ARCH 4461Senior Project: Architectural Thesis I
  2. ARCH 4460Senior Architectural Thesis Theory and Research Seminar

• 9 courses deep, ending at ARCH 3301

  1. ARCH 2232Architectural Representation IV
  2. ARCH 2202Architectural Design IV
  3. ARCH 3301Integrated Architectural Design

• 7 courses deep, ending at ARCH 4441

  1. ARCH 2232Architectural Representation IV
  2. ARCH 2202Architectural Design IV
  3. ARCH 3301Integrated Architectural Design

• 6 courses deep, ending at ARCH 2201

  1. ARCH 2231Architectural Representation III
  2. ARCH 2201Architectural Design III

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ARCH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARCH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ARCH does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cal Poly SLO campus feed.