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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.
Generated from Kent 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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ARCH coursework.
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 ARCH 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 60 ARCH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 71 more ARCH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ARCH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major Requirements (courses count in major GPA)2 required · verify with the official sheet
Architecture (ARCH) Upper-Division Electives (30000 or 40000 level); Architectural History Elective, choose from the following:
Additional Requirements (courses do not count in major GPA)2 required · verify with the official sheet
American Civic Literacy Requirement; Kent Core Composition; Kent Core Humanities; Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines); Non-Architecture Electives (total credit hours depends on earning 124 credit hours, including 39 upper-division credit hours)
Major Requirements (courses count in major GPA)2 required · verify with the official sheet
Major Electives, choose from the following:; Any Architecture (ARCH) Upper-Division course (30000 or 40000 level); Any Architecture and Environmental Design (AED) Upper-Division course (30000 or 40000 level); Any Interior Design (ID) Upper-Division course (30000 or 40000 level); Any Landscape Architecture (LARC) Upper-Division course (30000 or 40000 level)
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: ARCH 10012
Gateway: ARCH 30102
Gateway: ARCH 40402
Gateway: ARCH 40301
The deepest prerequisite chains in ARCH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at ARCH 45391
4 courses deep, ending at ARCH 20102
4 courses deep, ending at ARCH 45591
3 courses deep, ending at ARCH 30031
Additional Requirements (courses do not count in major GPA)all required
Foreign Language; American Civic Literacy Requirement; Kent Core Composition; Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; Kent Core Humanities; Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines); Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory); Minor Requirement and Non-Architecture Electives (total credit hours depends on earning 121 credit hours, including 39 upper-division credit
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All ARCH courses in the Kent State catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for ARCH yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under ARCH yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
ARCH does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Kent State campus feed.