After GERM-UA 20
Gateway: GERM-UA 20
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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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GERM-UA coursework.
Generated from New York University’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 GERM-UA 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 17 GERM-UA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 31 more GERM-UA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on GERM-UA, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
General Education Requirements1 required
First-Year Seminar; Foreign Language; Quantitative Reasoning; Physical Science; Life Science; Texts and Ideas; Cultures and Contexts; Societies and the Social Sciences
Major Requirementsall required
Select six GERM-UA courses at the 200, 300, and 400 levels
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
General Education Requirements1 required
First-Year Seminar; Foreign Language; Quantitative Reasoning; Physical Science; Life Science; Texts and Ideas; Cultures and Contexts
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
German Courses; Select two advanced literature courses taught in German (300- or 400-level); Linguistics Courses; Select two of the following from two different fields of linguistics:; Historical Linguistics:; Sociolinguistics:; Phonology:; Semantics:; Computational Linguistics:; Psycholinguistics:; Structure of a Modern Language:
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: GERM-UA 20
Gateway: GERM-UA 9004
The deepest prerequisite chains in GERM-UA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at GERM-UA 9366
4 courses deep, ending at GERM-UA 500
All GERM-UA courses in the NYU catalog
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