After PHOT 255
Gateway: PHOT 255
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.
Generated from Montana State University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHOT coursework.
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 PHOT 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 18 PHOT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more PHOT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHOT, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: PHOT 255
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHOT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at PHOT 331
2 courses deep, ending at PHOT 360
All PHOT courses in the Montana State catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under PHOT yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
PHOT does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Montana State campus feed.