ARTS at University of Iowa

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 ARTS coursework.

• UICB 4380Letterpress IIopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• DSGN 2600Graphic Design IIopens 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 ARTS 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 13 ARTS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 27 more ARTS 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 ARTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 4390

  1. ARTS 1510Basic Drawing
  2. DSGN 2600Graphic Design II
  3. ARTS 4390Book and Publication Design

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 5330

  1. UICB 4300Letterpress I
  2. UICB 4380Letterpress II
  3. ARTS 5330Letterpress III: Imagemaking arr

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTS 4490

  1. UICB 4400History of Western Letterforms
  2. ARTS 4490Advanced Studies in Letter Arts

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ARTS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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