Semester 1
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.
A suggested order for the 10 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.
Semester 1
Generated from Cornell University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LSP 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 LSP 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 10 LSP and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 106 more LSP courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on LSP, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Core Course1 required
A minimum of two disciplinary introductory courses at the 1000/2000 level from the following list6 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in LSP. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at LSP 1250
2 courses deep, ending at LSP 3470
2 courses deep, ending at LSP 6110
All LSP courses in the Cornell catalog
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Use your school emailInstructors on LSP sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.
No clubs or organizations on record under LSP yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
LSP does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.