ELSI at University of Illinois Chicago

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 ELSI coursework.

• ELSI 012Reading/Writingopens 10 courses (1 directly)
• ELSI 013Reading/Writingopens 9 courses (1 directly)
• ELSI 014Reading/Writingopens 8 courses (7 directly)
• ELSI 022Listening/Speakingopens 7 courses (1 directly)
• ELSI 023Listening/Speakingopens 6 courses (1 directly)
• ELSI 024Listening/Speakingopens 5 courses (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 ELSI 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 26 ELSI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more ELSI 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 ELSI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ELSI 043

  1. ELSI 011Reading/Writing
  2. ELSI 012Reading/Writing
  3. ELSI 013Reading/Writing
  4. ELSI 014Reading/Writing
  5. ELSI 041English for Academic Purposes I.
  6. ELSI 043English for Academic Purposes II.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ELSI 025

  1. ELSI 021Listening/Speaking
  2. ELSI 022Listening/Speaking
  3. ELSI 023Listening/Speaking

• 3 courses deep, ending at ELSI 049

  1. ELSI 047Live, Learn, Grow: Foundation
  2. ELSI 048Live, Learn, Grow: Bridge
  3. ELSI 049Live, Learn, Grow: Learning Track

• 2 courses deep, ending at ELSI 092

  1. ELSI 091English for Specific Fields
  2. ELSI 092English for Specific Fields II.

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ELSI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ELSI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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