ART at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Intro sequences

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

• 1. ART 1130Fundamentals of Digital Media Art
  2. ART 11022D Design
  3. ART 2241Graphic Design I
• 1. ART 11022D Design
  2. ART 1130Fundamentals of Digital Media Art
  3. ART 2241Graphic Design I
• 1. ART 1101Fundamentals of Drawing
  2. ART 2281Intermediate Drawing
• 1. ART 1141Design Thinking and Methods
  2. ART 11022D Design
  3. ART 2241Graphic Design I

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 ART coursework.

• ART 2241Graphic Design Iopens 8 courses (3.5 directly)
• ART 2242Typography Iopens 7 courses (2.5 directly)
• ART 2261Creative Lightingopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• ART 3332Three-dimensional Design and Modeling for Animation and Interactive Artopens 4 courses (2 directly)
• ART 2281Intermediate Drawingopens 4 courses (1.8 directly)
• ART 2282Beginning Paintingopens 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 ART 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 71 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more ART 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 ART, 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 ART. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 4432

  1. ART 11022D Design
  2. ART 3331Concept Art and Storyboarding
  3. ART 4433The Art of Mixed Reality
  4. CSC 4431Computing for Interactive Arts Capstone I
  5. ART 4432Computing for Interactive Arts Capstone II

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 4459

  1. ART 11022D Design
  2. ART 2241Graphic Design I
  3. ART 2243Interaction Design I

• 4 courses deep, ending at ART 4441

  1. ART 11022D Design
  2. ART 2241Graphic Design I
  3. ART 3341Graphic Design II

• 4 courses deep, ending at ART 4479

  1. ART 1130Fundamentals of Digital Media Art
  2. ART 2261Creative Lighting
  3. ART 3379Portfolio: Photo Video

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ART yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ART yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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