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 California State University, San Bernardino’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 IST 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 IST 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 50 IST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 23 more IST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on IST, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
Applied and Acquired Skills, Experience, and Service Requirements (4-17)2 required · verify with the official sheet
Multimodal Approaches to Communication; One course selected from:; Digital Literacies: Acquisition and Use; One course selected from:; Research Techniques and Methodologies:; One course selected from:; Experiential/Service Learning and Community Engagement; One course selected from:
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: IST 3110
Gateway: IST 2310
Gateway: IST 2210
Gateway: IST 6215
Gateway: IST 6480
The deepest prerequisite chains in IST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at IST 4510
4 courses deep, ending at IST 4910
4 courses deep, ending at IST 6730
3 courses deep, ending at IST 3420
Focus Field (9)9 required · verify with the official sheet
Students must complete nine units of course work from any single discipline other than the discipline chosen for the required minor field. A minimum of six units must be upper-division.
All IST courses in the CSUSB catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for IST yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under IST yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
IST does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CSUSB campus feed.