HESS at Denison University

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 HESS coursework.

• HESS 203Research Methods in Health, Exercise and Sport Studies (4 Credit Hours)opens 21 courses (12.6 directly)
• HESS 204Structure, Function, and Adaptation in the Human Body (4 Credit Hours)opens 11 courses (10.3 directly)
• BIOL 210Molecular Biology and Unicellular Life (4 Credit Hours)opens 3 courses (1.3 directly)
• PSYC 200Research Methods and Statistics (4 Credit Hours)opens 2 courses (0.6 directly)
• BIOL 220Multicellular Life (4 Credit Hours)opens 2 courses (0.3 directly)
• HESS 301Psychology of Sport (4 Credit Hours)opens 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 HESS 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 38 HESS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more HESS 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 HESS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HESS 337

  1. CHEM 131Atoms and Molecules: Structure and Dynamics (4 Credit Hours)
  2. BIOL 210Molecular Biology and Unicellular Life (4 Credit Hours)
  3. BIOL 220Multicellular Life (4 Credit Hours)
  4. HESS 337Anatomy & Physiology: Musculoskeletal, Neuro, Cardiorespiratory (4 Credit Hours)

• 4 courses deep, ending at HESS 406

  1. HESS 200History and Organization of Sport in the U.S. (4 Credit Hours)
  2. HESS 203Research Methods in Health, Exercise and Sport Studies (4 Credit Hours)
  3. HESS 301Psychology of Sport (4 Credit Hours)

• 2 courses deep, ending at HESS 204

  1. HESS 101Fundamentals of Health (4 Credit Hours)
  2. HESS 204Structure, Function, and Adaptation in the Human Body (4 Credit Hours)

• 2 courses deep, ending at HESS 402

  1. HESS 202Applied Anatomy (4 Credit Hours)
  2. HESS 402Orthopedic Injury and Illness Assessment (4 Credit Hours)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HESS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HESS yet.

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Department events

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