CIT at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 6 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CIT coursework.

• CIT 5910Introduction to Software Developmentopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CIT 5920Mathematical Foundations of Computer Scienceopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CIT 5930Introduction to Computer Systemsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

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 CIT 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 6 CIT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more CIT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CIT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CIT 5940

  1. CIT 5910Introduction to Software Development
  2. CIT 5940Data Structures and Software Design

• 2 courses deep, ending at CIT 5950

  1. CIT 5930Introduction to Computer Systems
  2. CIT 5950Computer Systems Programming

• 2 courses deep, ending at CIT 5960

  1. CIT 5920Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  2. CIT 5960Algorithms and Computation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CIT yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CIT yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CIT does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.