After MATH 230-1
Gateway: MATH 230-1
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Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Generated from Northwestern University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHYSICS 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 PHYSICS 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 43 PHYSICS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more PHYSICS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHYSICS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Program Courses (10.02 units)2 required · verify with the official sheet
7 core courses (5.02 units):; 2 300-level BIOL SCI Electives; 3 courses from one of the concentration areas:; Molecular Genetics and Genomics; Cell and Developmental Biology; Human Health and Disease; Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology; Biochemistry and Biophysics; Computational and Systems Biology; Molecular Neurobiology; Interdisciplinary Biology
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHYSICS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
11 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 339-3
10 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 345-0
10 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 359-0
6 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 140-3
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1 statistics course - BIOL_SCI 337-0 or STAT 202-0 or other approved course
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All PHYSICS courses in the Northwestern catalog
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