SLIS 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 SLIS coursework.

• SLIS 5010Libraries, Culture, and Societyopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• SLIS 5030Information Organizationopens 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 SLIS 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 7 SLIS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 41 more SLIS 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 SLIS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at SLIS 5535

  1. UICB 4270Bookbinding II
  2. SLIS 5535Book Conservation

• 2 courses deep, ending at SLIS 6020

  1. SLIS 5010Libraries, Culture, and Society
  2. SLIS 6020Literacy and Learning

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SLIS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SLIS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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