INFS at McGill University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. INFS 680Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography
  2. INFS 683Windows and Linux OS Hardening
• 1. INFS 601Foundations of Information Studies
  2. INFS 603Research Project 1

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 INFS coursework.

• INFS 683Windows and Linux OS Hardeningopens 5 courses (3.7 directly)
• INFS 681Modern Software Exploitation and Defenceopens 4 courses (2.7 directly)
• INFS 682Network and Endpoint Securityopens 3 courses (1.7 directly)
• INFS 603Research Project 1opens 2 courses (2 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 INFS 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 37 INFS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 30 more INFS 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 INFS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFS 604

  1. INFS 601Foundations of Information Studies
  2. INFS 603Research Project 1
  3. INFS 604Research Project 2

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFS 674

  1. INFS 680Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography
  2. INFS 681Modern Software Exploitation and Defence
  3. INFS 674Advanced Threat Intelligence and Analysis

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFS 676

  1. INFS 680Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography
  2. INFS 682Network and Endpoint Security
  3. INFS 676Cloud Security and Virtualization

• 3 courses deep, ending at INFS 677

  1. INFS 680Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography
  2. INFS 683Windows and Linux OS Hardening
  3. INFS 677OT Security and Industrial Control Systems

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for INFS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under INFS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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