Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate OTS coursework.
Generated from Iowa State University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 OTS 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.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in OTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at OTS 5150
All OTS courses in the Iowa State catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for OTS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under OTS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
OTS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Iowa State campus feed.