GRDSN at College of DuPage

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 GRDSN coursework.

• GRDSN 1105Graphic Design 2opens 3 courses (1 directly)
• GRDSN 2201Graphic Design 3opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GRDSN 2200User Experience Designopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• GRDSN 1108Digital Illustration Design 2opens 1 course (1 directly)
• GRDSN 2202Web/Interactive Design 1opens 1 course (1 directly)
• GRDSN 2210Cartooningopens 1 course (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 GRDSN 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 18 GRDSN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more GRDSN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GRDSN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GRDSN 2205

  1. GRDSN 1102Graphic Design 1
  2. GRDSN 1105Graphic Design 2
  3. GRDSN 2201Graphic Design 3
  4. GRDSN 2205Graphic Design 4

• 4 courses deep, ending at GRDSN 2206

  1. GRDSN 1102Graphic Design 1
  2. GRDSN 2200User Experience Design
  3. GRDSN 2202Web/Interactive Design 1

• 3 courses deep, ending at GRDSN 2204

  1. GRDSN 1102Graphic Design 1
  2. GRDSN 1108Digital Illustration Design 2
  3. GRDSN 2204Digital Illustration 3

• 3 courses deep, ending at GRDSN 2211

  1. ART 1101Drawing I
  2. GRDSN 2210Cartooning
  3. GRDSN 2211Storyboarding/Sequential Art

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GRDSN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GRDSN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GRDSN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the College of DuPage campus feed.