After JOUR-UA 101
Gateway: JOUR-UA 101
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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 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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate JOUR-UA 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 JOUR-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 16 JOUR-UA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more JOUR-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 JOUR-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; Expressive Culture
Major Requirementsall required
Core Courses; Coursework for the second major (all Journalism majors must complete a second major in CAS. In this chart a nine-course, 36 credits major is used as an example)
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Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select three of the following Journalism Electives:; Other Elective Credits
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in JOUR-UA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at JOUR-UA 352
4 courses deep, ending at JOUR-UA 302
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All JOUR-UA courses in the NYU catalog
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