Building the department map…
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 Chicago’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 ED 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 ED 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 9 ED and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more ED courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ED, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Understanding the Creative Arts course
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Students may use the elective hours to obtain subsequent licensure endorsements, including: Middle Grades (Grades 5 – 8) in General Science, Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Science; Learning Behavior Specialist I (ages 5 – 21); and English as a Second Language/ Bilingual Education. ISBE requires students interested in obtaining an additional endorsement to take specific courses and to meet
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ED. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at ED 317
2 courses deep, ending at ED 374
2 courses deep, ending at ED 375
All ED courses in the UIC catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for ED yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under ED yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
ED does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIC campus feed.