DESIGN at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 7 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 DESIGN coursework.

• DESIGN 6297Coding for Design IIIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• DESIGN 6397Design for Physical Interaction Iopens 1 course (1 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 DESIGN 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 7 DESIGN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 18 more DESIGN 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 DESIGN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 4680

  1. CRP 4080Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  2. DESIGN 4680Urban Spatial Data Analytics

• 2 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 6298

  1. DESIGN 6297Coding for Design III
  2. DESIGN 6298Coding for Design II

• 2 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 6398

  1. DESIGN 6397Design for Physical Interaction I
  2. DESIGN 6398Design for Physical Interaction II

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on DESIGN sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Amira Abdel-Rahman
• Harald Haraldsson
• James Weaver
• Jenny Sabin
• Marirena Kladeftira
• Max Kreminski
• Tiffany Cheng
• Wendy Ju

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DESIGN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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