GEOS at College of the Holy Cross

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 GEOS coursework.

• PHYS 115Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Wavesopens 3 courses (0.3 directly)
• CHEM 141Environmental Chemistryopens 2 courses (0.1 directly)
• GEOS 210Geomorphologyopens 1 course (0.1 directly)
• GEOS 270Watershed Hydrologyopens 1 course (0.1 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 GEOS 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 GEOS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 4 more GEOS 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 GEOS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GEOS 310

  1. MATH 133Calculus 1 with Fundamentals
  2. PHYS 115Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Waves
  3. GEOS 210Geomorphology
  4. GEOS 310Paleoclimatology

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOS 270

  1. CHEM 181Atoms & Molecules
  2. CHEM 141Environmental Chemistry
  3. GEOS 270Watershed Hydrology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GEOS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GEOS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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