VCS at Iowa State University

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 VCS coursework.

• VCS 7444Small Animal Medicineopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• VCS 7405Pet Bird and Exotic Species Medicineopens 1 course (1 directly)
• VCS 7466Anesthesiologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• VCS 7463Primary Careopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• VCS 7480Veterinary Dentistryopens 1 course (0.5 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 VCS 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 12 VCS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 86 more VCS 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 VCS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at VCS 7318

  1. BMS 7443Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  2. VCS 7318Advanced Small Animal Oncology

• 2 courses deep, ending at VCS 7403

  1. VCS 7444Small Animal Medicine
  2. VCS 7403Clinical Cardiology II

• 2 courses deep, ending at VCS 7430X

  1. VCS 7405Pet Bird and Exotic Species Medicine
  2. VCS 7430XLaboratory Animal Medicine

• 2 courses deep, ending at VCS 7439X

  1. VCS 7463Primary Care
  2. VCS 7439XCommunity Outreach Elective Surgical Rotation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for VCS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under VCS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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