GEMS at University of Maryland, College Park

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 GEMS coursework.

• GEMS 396Team Project Seminar IIIopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• GEMS 104Topics in Science, Technology and Society (STS)opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GEMS 397Team Project Seminar IVopens 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 GEMS 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 10 GEMS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 2 more GEMS 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 GEMS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GEMS 496

  1. GEMS 297Team Project Seminar II
  2. GEMS 396Team Project Seminar III
  3. GEMS 397Team Project Seminar IV
  4. GEMS 496Project Writing Seminar

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEMS 202

  1. GEMS 100Freshman Honors Colloquium: Introduction to Gemstone
  2. GEMS 104Topics in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
  3. GEMS 202Team Dynamics and Research Methodology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GEMS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GEMS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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