Building the department map…
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 University of Oregon’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 WR 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 WR 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 WR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 11 more WR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on WR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Lower-Division Courses15 required · verify with the official sheet
Two lower-division elective courses
Writing Requirementchoose 1
Upper-Division Courses15 required · verify with the official sheet
Students must take at least one class in each of the categories (A-G); A: Literature course, pre-1500; B: Literature course, 1500–1789; C: Literature course, 1789 to the present; D: Literary theory or rhetoric course; E: Media, folklore, or culture course; F: Gender, ability, queer studies, or sexuality course; G: Empire, race, or ethnicity course; Additional upper-division course work in literatu
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in WR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at WR 198
2 courses deep, ending at WR 123
1 course from1 required
Breadth Courses15 required
Any 400-level CS courses and CS 322; A maximum number of 8 credits from courses CS 399 , CS 400M, and CS 410 may be counted toward the degree; A maximum number of 8 credits from CS 403 may be counted toward the degree; A maximum number of 4 credits from courses CS 405 and CS 407 may be counted toward the degree; CS 405 , CS 407 , CS 399 , CS 410 repeatable only with different subtitles
All WR courses in the Oregon catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under WR yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
WR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Oregon campus feed.