Building the department map…
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.
Generated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate FSN coursework.
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 FSN 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 16 FSN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more FSN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on FSN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
REQUIRED COURSESall required
Approved Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select from the following:
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in FSN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at FSN 3385
3 courses deep, ending at FSN 3346
2 courses deep, ending at FSN 2201
2 courses deep, ending at FSN 3305
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Approved Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select from the following:; Select any ASCI or DSCI courses; Any courses used in the following minors:; Agribusiness; Agricultural Communication; Agricultural Education; Agricultural Leadership; Biotechnology; Crop Science; Environmental Soil Science; Food Science; Meat Science and Processing; Rangeland Ecology and Management; Spanish; Water Science
All FSN courses in the Cal Poly SLO catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under FSN yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
FSN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cal Poly SLO campus feed.