COMS at McGill 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 COMS coursework.

• COMS 300Media and Modernity in the 20th Centuryopens 6 courses (5 directly)
• COMS 492Power, Difference and Justiceopens 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 COMS 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 22 COMS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 50 more COMS 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 COMS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at COMS 411

  1. COMS 200History of Communication
  2. COMS 300Media and Modernity in the 20th Century
  3. COMS 492Power, Difference and Justice
  4. COMS 411Disability, Technology and Communication

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMS 354

  1. ARTH 353Selected Topics in Art History 1
  2. COMS 354Media Studies of Crime

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMS 355

  1. COMS 210Introduction to Communication Studies
  2. COMS 355Media Governance

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COMS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COMS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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