DSC at DePaul University

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 DSC 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 42 DSC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 3 more DSC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on DSC, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in DSC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at DSC 545

  1. IT 403Statistics and Data Analysis
  2. DSC 423Data Analysis and Regression
  3. DSC 441Fundamentals of Data Science
  4. DSC 445Machine Learning I (formerly Dsc 540)
  5. DSC 545Machine Learning II

• 4 courses deep, ending at DSC 484

  1. CSC 401Introduction to Programming
  2. DSC 430Python Programming
  3. DSC 450Database Processing for Large-scale Analytics

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSC 333

  1. CSC 301Data Structures II
  2. CSC 355Database Systems
  3. DSC 333Introduction to Big Data Processing

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSC 345

  1. CSC 301Data Structures II
  2. CSC 380Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
  3. DSC 345Machine Learning

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DSC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DSC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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