Information Science 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 INFO coursework.

• INFO 2201Programming for Information Science 2opens 8 courses (6.3 directly)
• INFO 2301Quantitative Reasoning for Information Scienceopens 4 courses (2.3 directly)
• CSCI 2270Computer Science 2: Data Structuresopens 3 courses (1.3 directly)
• GEOG 4023Advanced Quantitative Methods for Spatial Dataopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• PSCI 3075Applied Political Science Researchopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• PSYC 3111Psychological Science 2: Research Methods in Psychologyopens 2 courses (2 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 INFO 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 31 INFO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 81 more INFO 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 INFO, 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 INFO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFO 3401

  1. GEOG 3023Statistics and Geographic Data
  2. GEOG 4023Advanced Quantitative Methods for Spatial Data
  3. INFO 3401Information Exploration

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFO 3510

  1. APPM 1650Python for Math and Data Science Applications
  2. INFO 2201Programming for Information Science 2
  3. INFO 3510Music as Information

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFO 4604

  1. CSCI 1300Computer Science 1: Starting Computing
  2. CSCI 2270Computer Science 2: Data Structures
  3. INFO 4604Applied Machine Learning

• 2 courses deep, ending at INFO 2301

  1. ATLS 1300Computational Foundations 1
  2. INFO 2301Quantitative Reasoning for Information Science

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for INFO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under INFO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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