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 IPS coursework.
Generated from Loyola University Chicago’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 IPS 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 IPS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 82 more IPS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in IPS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at IPS 402
2 courses deep, ending at IPS 429
2 courses deep, ending at IPS 503
2 courses deep, ending at IPS 509
All IPS courses in the Loyola Chicago catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for IPS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under IPS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
IPS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Loyola Chicago campus feed.