After BINF 401
Gateway: BINF 401
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BINF coursework.
Generated from George Mason University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 BINF 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 BINF and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more BINF courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on BINF, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Computer Science1 required
Required Biologyall required
Option B1 required
One 3 credit chemistry course at the 300 or 400-level (not CHEM 314)
Option Call required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in BINF. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at BINF 404
4 courses deep, ending at BINF 841
3 courses deep, ending at BINF 450
2 courses deep, ending at BINF 354
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All BINF courses in the GMU catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under BINF yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
BINF does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GMU campus feed.