VAST 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 VAST coursework.

• VAST 222Intermediate Drawingopens 2 courses (0.3 directly)
• VAST 211Mixed Mediaopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• VAST 230Photography 2opens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• VAST 225Advanced Maker Space Projectsopens 1 course (0.3 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 VAST 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 20 VAST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more VAST 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 VAST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at VAST 201

  1. VAST 101Fundamentals of Drawing
  2. VAST 222Intermediate Drawing
  3. VAST 211Mixed Media
  4. VAST 201Painting 2

• 3 courses deep, ending at VAST 299

  1. VAST 1023-Dimensional Fundamentals
  2. VAST 225Advanced Maker Space Projects
  3. VAST 299Text, Image, Story

• 3 courses deep, ending at VAST 320

  1. VAST 130Photography 1
  2. VAST 230Photography 2
  3. VAST 320Darkroom Photography

• 2 courses deep, ending at VAST 203

  1. VAST 105Digital Art Studio 1
  2. VAST 203Fundamentals of Color

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for VAST yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under VAST yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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