Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHIL 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 PHIL 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 39 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 101 more PHIL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHIL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Historychoose 1
Logicchoose 1
Philosophical Writing1 required
Valueschoose 1
Metaphysics and Epistemologychoose 1
Electives1 required · verify with the official sheet
Any two PHIL courses that are not taken to satisfy any of the above requirements
Fundamentals of Public Healthall required
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHIL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 4300
3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 4450
2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 3110
2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 3140
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Social and Behavioral Health Courses; Environmental Health Courses; Other Public Health Courses
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All PHIL courses in the CU Boulder catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for PHIL yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under PHIL yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
Philosophy does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.