IT at George Mason 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 IT coursework.

• IT 102Discrete Structuresopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• IT 300Modern Telecommunicationsopens 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 IT 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 15 IT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 50 more IT 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 IT, 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 IT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at IT 106

  1. MATH 108Introductory Calculus with Business Applications
  2. IT 102Discrete Structures
  3. IT 106Introduction to IT Problem Solving Using Computer Programming

• 3 courses deep, ending at IT 341

  1. IT 293IT Degree and Careers Overview
  2. IT 300Modern Telecommunications
  3. IT 341Data Communications and Network Principles

• 2 courses deep, ending at IT 369

  1. IT 207Applied IT Programming
  2. IT 369Cyber Security of Data and Software

• 2 courses deep, ending at IT 492

  1. IT 216Systems Analysis and Design
  2. IT 492Senior Design Project I.

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IT yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IT yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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