Semester 1fall
YIDSH 1776Elementary Yiddish Iusually fall
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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.
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.
A suggested order for the 4 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 1fall
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 YIDSH 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 YIDSH 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.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: YIDSH 1777
The deepest prerequisite chains in YIDSH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at YIDSH 1880
All YIDSH courses in the Cornell catalog
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