IDEA 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 IDEA coursework.

• IDEA 110Creativity and Innovation in Design and Artsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• IDEA 120Digital Practices in Design and Artsopens 1 course (1 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 IDEA 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 IDEA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 3 more IDEA 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 IDEA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDEA 310

  1. IDEA 110Creativity and Innovation in Design and Arts
  2. IDEA 310Independent Study Course for IDEA Majors

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDEA 322

  1. DES 222Human Experience in Design
  2. IDEA 322Introduction to Arts-Based Research Methods

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IDEA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IDEA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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