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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 HISTORY coursework.
Generated from Ohio State 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 HISTORY 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 15 HISTORY and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 148 more HISTORY courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: HISTORY 2800
The deepest prerequisite chains in HISTORY. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at HISTORY 3798.02
2 courses deep, ending at HISTORY 4015
All HISTORY courses in the Ohio State catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for HISTORY yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under HISTORY yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
HISTORY does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Ohio State campus feed.