DGM at Northeastern University

Intro sequences

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

• 1. DGM 6105Visual Communications Foundation
  2. DGM 6450Animation Basics
• 1. DGM 6168Usability and Human Interaction
  2. DGM 6461Interactive Information Design 1
• 1. DGM 6506Introduction to Digital Video
  2. DGM 6435Digital Video Production
• 1. DGM 6400Game Design Fundamentals
  2. DGM 6403Game Engine Fundamentals

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 DGM coursework.

• DGM 6461Interactive Information Design 1opens 3 courses (3 directly)
• DGM 6450Animation Basicsopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• DGM 6435Digital Video Productionopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• DGM 6217Typography for Interactivityopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• DGM 6440Editing in the Digital Studioopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• DGM 6403Game Engine Fundamentalsopens 2 courses (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 DGM 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 DGM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more DGM 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 DGM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DGM 6410

  1. DGM 6400Game Design Fundamentals
  2. DGM 6403Game Engine Fundamentals
  3. DGM 6405Game Development
  4. DGM 6410Game Design Technology Lab

• 4 courses deep, ending at DGM 6535

  1. DGM 6105Visual Communications Foundation
  2. DGM 6450Animation Basics
  3. DGM 6530Character Animation

• 4 courses deep, ending at DGM 6540

  1. DGM 6506Introduction to Digital Video
  2. DGM 6435Digital Video Production
  3. DGM 6440Editing in the Digital Studio

• 3 courses deep, ending at DGM 6322

  1. DGM 6105Visual Communications Foundation
  2. DGM 6122Foundations of Digital Storytelling
  3. DGM 6322Advanced Digital Storytelling

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DGM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DGM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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