Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate THR coursework.
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 THR 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 28 THR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 101 more THR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on THR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in THR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at THR 415
3 courses deep, ending at THR 798
2 courses deep, ending at THR 440
2 courses deep, ending at THR 480
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All THR courses in the GMU catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for THR yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under THR yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
THR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GMU campus feed.