TCOM 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 TCOM coursework.

• TCOM 515Internet Protocol Routing: Lecture and Laboratory Courseopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• TCOM 514Basic Switching: Lecture and Laboratory Courseopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• TCOM 551Digital Communication Systemsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• TCOM 552Introduction to Mobile Communications Systemsopens 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 TCOM 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 22 TCOM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more TCOM 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 TCOM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at TCOM 607

  1. TCOM 500Modern Telecommunications
  2. TCOM 551Digital Communication Systems
  3. TCOM 607Satellite Communications

• 3 courses deep, ending at TCOM 610

  1. IT 341Data Communications and Network Principles
  2. TCOM 515Internet Protocol Routing: Lecture and Laboratory Course
  3. TCOM 610Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Routing

• 3 courses deep, ending at TCOM 611

  1. IT 341Data Communications and Network Principles
  2. TCOM 514Basic Switching: Lecture and Laboratory Course
  3. TCOM 611Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).

• 3 courses deep, ending at TCOM 652

  1. TCOM 500Modern Telecommunications
  2. TCOM 552Introduction to Mobile Communications Systems
  3. TCOM 6525G Service, Technology and Network

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for TCOM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under TCOM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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