After BIOL 4003
Gateway: BIOL 4003
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GCD coursework.
Generated from University of Minnesota Twin Cities’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 GCD 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 34 GCD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 48 more GCD 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 GCD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at GCD 8161
5 courses deep, ending at GCD 8073
2 courses deep, ending at GCD 3486
2 courses deep, ending at GCD 8014
All GCD courses in the Minnesota catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under GCD yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
GCD does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Minnesota campus feed.