After MACS 260
Gateway: MACS 260
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Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MACS coursework.
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 MACS 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 5 MACS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 80 more MACS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on MACS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Major Coursesall required
Sports Media Electives12 required · verify with the official sheet
Select 12 hours from the list below. At least 6 hours must be from within the College of Media (ADV, JOUR, MACS, or MDIA)
Media Electives (any ADV, JOUR, MACS, or MDIA course)9 required
Sports Media Capstonechoose 1
All ofall required
Media Electives - 300- or 400-level; Advertising (ADV), Journalism (JOUR), Media and Cinema Studies (MACS), or Media (MDIA) coursework at the 300- or 400-level; Media Electives - Any Level; Any Advertising (ADV), Journalism (JOUR), Media and Cinema Studies (MACS), or Media (MDIA) course not already counting toward a requirement above.
1 course from1 required
Choose 1
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: MACS 260
The deepest prerequisite chains in MACS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at MACS 370
1 course from1 required
Total Hours15 required
All MACS courses in the UIUC catalog
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