VCM 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 VCM coursework.

• VM 606Clinical Practice IIopens 7 courses (5 directly)
• VM 605Pathobiology Iopens 5 courses (3 directly)
• VCM 509Biology of Veterinary Pathogenopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• VM 607Pathobiology IIopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• VCM 690Intro to Food Supply Medicineopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• VM 608Pathobiology IIIopens 2 courses (2 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 VCM 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 29 VCM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 63 more VCM 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 VCM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at VCM 635

  1. VM 604Structure and Function III
  2. VM 605Pathobiology I
  3. VM 607Pathobiology II
  4. VM 608Pathobiology III
  5. VCM 635Advanced Soft Tissue Surgery

• 5 courses deep, ending at VCM 695

  1. VM 601Clinical Practice I
  2. VCM 690Intro to Food Supply Medicine
  3. VCM 672Food Supply Disease Prevention

• 4 courses deep, ending at VCM 514

  1. VCM 507Veterinary Form and Function
  2. VCM 509Biology of Veterinary Pathogen
  3. VCM 513Science of Health Homeostasis

• 3 courses deep, ending at VCM 641

  1. VM 601Clinical Practice I
  2. VM 606Clinical Practice II
  3. VCM 641Equine Neonatology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for VCM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under VCM yet.

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Department events

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