ARTS at University of Colorado Boulder

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 ARTS coursework.

• ARTS 1020Introduction to Studio Art 2opens 44 courses (35.3 directly)
• ARTS 3303Relief 1opens 6 courses (2 directly)
• ARTS 3403Intaglio 1opens 5 courses (1 directly)
• ARTS 3413Lithography 1opens 5 courses (1 directly)
• ARTS 3423Screen Printing 1opens 5 courses (1 directly)
• ARTS 3433Alternative Printmaking 1opens 5 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 ARTS 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 83 ARTS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 69 more ARTS 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 ARTS, 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 ARTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ARTS 3841

  1. ARTS 1171Photography for Non-Majors
  2. ARTS 3171Photography 2
  3. ARTS 3191Photography 3
  4. ARTS 4161Photography 4
  5. ARTS 3841Undergraduate Independent Study---Photography

• 5 courses deep, ending at ARTS 4002

  1. ARTS 1010Introduction to Studio Art
  2. ARTS 1020Introduction to Studio Art 2
  3. ARTS 2022Beginning Drawing

• 5 courses deep, ending at ARTS 4202

  1. ARTS 1010Introduction to Studio Art
  2. ARTS 1020Introduction to Studio Art 2
  3. ARTS 2222Beginning Painting

• 4 courses deep, ending at ARTS 4303

  1. ARTS 1010Introduction to Studio Art
  2. ARTS 1020Introduction to Studio Art 2
  3. ARTS 3303Relief 1

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ARTS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ARTS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.