MCS at University of Illinois Chicago

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 MCS 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 46 MCS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 11 more MCS 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 MCS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at MCS 481

  1. MATH 180Calculus I.
  2. CS 107Introduction to Computing and Programming
  3. MCS 275Programming Tools and File Management
  4. MCS 360Introduction to Data Structures
  5. MCS 401Computer Algorithms I.
  6. MCS 481Computational Geometry

• 6 courses deep, ending at MCS 501

  1. MATH 180Calculus I.
  2. CS 107Introduction to Computing and Programming
  3. MCS 275Programming Tools and File Management

• 5 courses deep, ending at MCS 572

  1. MATH 180Calculus I.
  2. CS 107Introduction to Computing and Programming
  3. MCS 471Numerical Analysis

• 4 courses deep, ending at MCS 521

  1. MATH 215Introduction to Advanced Mathematics
  2. MATH 320Linear Algebra I.
  3. MCS 423Graph Theory

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MCS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MCS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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