SER at DePaul University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. SER 322Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities I: Academics, Life Skills, & Transition
  2. SER 327Practicum: Self-contained Setting

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 SER coursework.

• SER 327Practicum: Self-contained Settingopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• SER 430Introduction to Reading Assessmentopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SER 328Contemporary Issues in Special Educationopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• SER 324Practicum: Inclusion Settingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SER 325Topics in Special Educationopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SER 383Student Teaching Seminaropens 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 SER 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 46 SER and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 46 more SER 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 SER. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at SER 385

  1. SER 322Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities I: Academics, Life Skills, & Transition
  2. SER 327Practicum: Self-contained Setting
  3. SER 328Contemporary Issues in Special Education
  4. SER 383Student Teaching Seminar
  5. SER 385Student Teaching in Special Education: Elementary

• 3 courses deep, ending at SER 320

  1. SER 300Intro to Special Education I: Exceptionality & Learning
  2. SER 301Intro to Special Education II - Foundations and Characteristics
  3. SER 320Collaboration in Schools

• 3 courses deep, ending at SER 324

  1. SER 325Topics in Special Education
  2. SER 324Practicum: Inclusion Setting

• 3 courses deep, ending at SER 384

  1. SER 386Student Teaching in Special Education: Secondary
  2. SER 384Capstone in Special Education

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SER yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SER yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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