EARTH at Northwestern 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 EARTH coursework.

• EARTH 310-0Aqueous Geochemistryopens 1 course (1 directly)
• EARTH 330-0Sedimentary Geologyopens 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 EARTH 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 5 EARTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 37 more EARTH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on EARTH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in EARTH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at EARTH 331-0

  1. EARTH 330-0Sedimentary Geology
  2. EARTH 331-0Field Problems in Sedimentary Geology

• 2 courses deep, ending at EARTH 344-0

  1. CHEM 131-0Fundamentals of Chemistry I
  2. EARTH 344-0The Scientific Foundations of Decarbonization

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for EARTH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under EARTH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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