WRD at DePaul 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 WRD coursework.

• WRD 104Composition and Rhetoric IIopens 11 courses (5.5 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 WRD 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 31 WRD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 84 more WRD 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 WRD, 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 WRD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at WRD 202

  1. HON 100Rhetoric and Critical Inquiry
  2. WRD 104Composition and Rhetoric II
  3. WRD 202Professional Writing for Business

• 2 courses deep, ending at WRD 104X

  1. WRD 103Composition and Rhetoric I
  2. WRD 104XComposition & Rhetoric II (for Multilingual Writers)

• 2 courses deep, ending at WRD 551

  1. WRD 540Teaching Writing
  2. WRD 551Teaching Apprenticeship Practicum

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for WRD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under WRD yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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