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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.
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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MCDB coursework.
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 MCDB 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 MCDB and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 79 more MCDB courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on MCDB, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Lower-Division Lecture; Genetics; Lower-Division Labs; Upper-Division Lecture; Upper-Division Laboratory; Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry; Advanced Courses; Scientific Reasoning; Select two:
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MCDB Upper-Division Electives1 required
An additional 6 credit hours of upper-division electives (any MCDB 3000- or 4000-level course)
Fundamentals of Public Healthall required
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Calculusall required
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Ancillary Natural Science sequence (some courses may have required labs)choose 1
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: MCDB 2150
Gateway: MCDB 3135
Gateway: MCDB 1161
The deepest prerequisite chains in MCDB. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at MCDB 4161
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3 courses deep, ending at MCDB 2161
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Biology Sequence with Labschoose 1
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Introductory Statisticschoose 1
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Social and Behavioral Health Courses; Environmental Health Courses; Other Public Health Courses
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Science Requirementchoose 1
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APPM or STAT Senior Sequence2 required · verify with the official sheet
Complete a two-semester course sequence of applied mathematics or statistics courses numbered 4000 or above, chosen from the following
Humanities, Social Sciences and Writing Requirements15 required
Free Electives15 required · verify with the official sheet
Free electives should be chosen to bring the total credit hours to a minimum of 128.
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All MCDB courses in the CU Boulder catalog
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