Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ASTR coursework.
Generated from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 ASTR 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 21 ASTR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 22 more ASTR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ASTR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Computer Science Courseworkchoose 1
OR; & two CS courses at the 400 level above CS 403 , excluding CS 421 and CS 491
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Mathematics (may also fulfill the General Education Quantitative Reasoning I and II requirements)all required
Advanced Astronomy Courses (Minimum 12 total advanced ASTR hours required)all required
Select 2 courses from the following list:; Additional ASTR course(s) at the 300 level or higher
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ASTR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at ASTR 471
2 courses deep, ending at ASTR 501
2 courses deep, ending at ASTR 502
2 courses deep, ending at ASTR 505
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All ASTR courses in the UIUC catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under ASTR yet.
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ASTR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIUC campus feed.