CPE at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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 CPE 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 56 CPE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more CPE 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 CPE, 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 CPE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at CPE 4261

  1. CSC 1001Fundamentals of Computer Science
  2. CSC 2001Data Structures
  3. CSC 2050System Software Mechanics
  4. CSC 3201Introduction to Computer Security
  5. CSC 4260Interdisciplinary Privacy and Security Capstone I
  6. CPE 4261Senior Project - Privacy and Security Capstone II

• 6 courses deep, ending at CPE 4461

  1. CSC 1001Fundamentals of Computer Science
  2. CSC 2001Data Structures
  3. CSC 2050System Software Mechanics

• 6 courses deep, ending at CPE 4650

  1. CSC 1001Fundamentals of Computer Science
  2. CSC 2001Data Structures
  3. CSC 2050System Software Mechanics

• 6 courses deep, ending at CPE 5564

  1. CSC 1001Fundamentals of Computer Science
  2. CSC 2001Data Structures
  3. CSC 2050System Software Mechanics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CPE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CPE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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