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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LEAD coursework.
Generated from University of Colorado Boulder’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 LEAD 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 24 LEAD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 16 more LEAD courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on LEAD, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Core Requirementsall required
Applied Researchall required
Learning in Community Settingsall required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in LEAD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at LEAD 3041
3 courses deep, ending at LEAD 1571
3 courses deep, ending at LEAD 4502
3 courses deep, ending at LEAD 4931
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All LEAD courses in the CU Boulder catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for LEAD yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under LEAD yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
LEAD does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.