ARTD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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 ARTD coursework.

• ARTD 201Industrial Design Iopens 7 courses (2 directly)
• ARTD 225Design Drawingopens 7 courses (1 directly)
• ARTD 202Industrial Design IIopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• ARTD 228Computer Applicationsopens 5 courses (1 directly)
• ARTD 318Interaction Designopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• ARTD 502Industrial Design II: From Ideation to Implementationopens 4 courses (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 ARTD 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 25 ARTD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more ARTD 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 ARTD, 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 ARTD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at ARTD 402

  1. ARTD 225Design Drawing
  2. ARTD 201Industrial Design I
  3. ARTD 202Industrial Design II
  4. ARTD 301Industrial Design III
  5. ARTD 302Industrial Design IV
  6. ARTD 401Industrial Design V
  7. ARTD 402Industrial Design VI

• 6 courses deep, ending at ARTD 506

  1. ARTD 501Industrial Design I: From Inquiry to Ideation
  2. ARTD 502Industrial Design II: From Ideation to Implementation
  3. ARTD 503Industrial Design III: Design Project Formulation

• 4 courses deep, ending at ARTD 471

  1. ARTD 218Interaction Design Foundation
  2. ARTD 318Interaction Design
  3. ARTD 371Graphic Design Practicum

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTD 444

  1. ARTD 222Typography 1
  2. ARTD 333Typography 2
  3. ARTD 444Typography 3

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ARTD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTD yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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