BISC at George Washington 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 BISC coursework.

• CHEM 1112General Chemistry II.opens 25 courses (7 directly)
• BISC 2207Geneticsopens 14 courses (9.3 directly)
• BISC 2202Cell Biologyopens 13 courses (6.5 directly)
• BISC 2450Organic Evolutionopens 9 courses (4.3 directly)
• CHEM 2151Organic Chemistry I.opens 8 courses (5 directly)
• CHEM 2152Organic Chemistry II.opens 7 courses (4 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 BISC 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 100 BISC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 39 more BISC 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 BISC, 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 BISC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at BISC 3167

  1. CHEM 1111General Chemistry I.
  2. CHEM 1112General Chemistry II.
  3. CHEM 2151Organic Chemistry I.
  4. CHEM 2152Organic Chemistry II.
  5. BIOC 3261Introductory Medical Biochemistry
  6. BISC 3167Biochemistry Laboratory

• 6 courses deep, ending at BISC 3263

  1. CHEM 1111General Chemistry I.
  2. CHEM 1112General Chemistry II.
  3. CHEM 2151Organic Chemistry I.

• 5 courses deep, ending at BISC 4219

  1. CHEM 1111General Chemistry I.
  2. CHEM 1112General Chemistry II.
  3. BISC 2336Introductory Microbiology

• 5 courses deep, ending at BISC 6132

  1. CHEM 1111General Chemistry I.
  2. CHEM 1112General Chemistry II.
  3. BISC 3209Molecular Biology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BISC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BISC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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