CSPB 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 CSPB coursework.

• APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineersopens 33 courses (2.5 directly)
• MATH 1310Calculus for Life Sciencesopens 33 courses (2.5 directly)
• CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computingopens 28 courses (6 directly)
• CSCI 2275Programming and Data Structuresopens 23 courses (12.7 directly)
• CSCI 2270Computer Science 2: Data Structuresopens 17 courses (12.5 directly)
• CSPB 2270Computer Science 2: Data Structuresopens 12 courses (7.5 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 CSPB 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 53 CSPB and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 2 more CSPB 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 CSPB. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSPB 3010

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computing
  4. CSCI 2270Computer Science 2: Data Structures
  5. CSCI 3308Software Development Methods and Tools
  6. CSPB 3010Intensive Programming Workshop

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSPB 3202

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computing

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSPB 3302

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computing

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSPB 3403

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computing

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CSPB yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CSPB yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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