BPS at University of Illinois Chicago

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. BPS 582Forensic Chemistry and Trace Evidence Analysis
• 1. BPS 580Forensic Science: Survey and Foundations
• 1. BPS 581Forensic Analysis of Biological Evidence
• 1. BPS 583Physical Pattern Evidence Analysis

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 BPS coursework.

• BPS 582Forensic Chemistry and Trace Evidence Analysisopens 3 courses (1.5 directly)
• BPS 580Forensic Science: Survey and Foundationsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• BPS 581Forensic Analysis of Biological Evidenceopens 2 courses (0.5 directly)
• BPS 583Physical Pattern Evidence Analysisopens 2 courses (0.5 directly)
• BPS 584Forensic Drug Analysis and Toxicologyopens 2 courses (0.5 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 BPS 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 12 BPS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more BPS 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 BPS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at BPS 510

  1. MATH 480Applied Differential Equations
  2. BPS 510Principles of Interfacial Phenomena

• 2 courses deep, ending at BPS 586

  1. BPS 581Forensic Analysis of Biological Evidence
  2. BPS 586Topics in Specialty Forensic Examinations

• 2 courses deep, ending at BPS 591

  1. BPS 582Forensic Chemistry and Trace Evidence Analysis
  2. BPS 591Topics in Forensic Microscopy

• 2 courses deep, ending at BPS 592

  1. BPS 580Forensic Science: Survey and Foundations
  2. BPS 592Forensic Science Internship

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BPS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BPS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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