DSGN at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 30 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 DSGN coursework.

• DSGN 1040Open Bookopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• DSGN 2010Digital Figure Modelingopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• DSGN 2220Immersive Media Studioopens 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 DSGN 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 30 DSGN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 108 more DSGN 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 DSGN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSGN 2050

  1. DSGN 0010Art, Design and Digital Culture
  2. DSGN 1040Open Book
  3. DSGN 2050Graphic Design Practicum

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSGN 2060

  1. DSGN 1020Art of the web: Interactive Concepts for Art & Design
  2. DSGN 2010Digital Figure Modeling
  3. DSGN 2060Advanced 3-D Modeling

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSGN 2230

  1. DSGN 10303-D Computer Modeling
  2. DSGN 2220Immersive Media Studio
  3. DSGN 2230Embodied Interfaces for Immersion

• 2 courses deep, ending at DSGN 5003

  1. FNAR 0010Drawing I
  2. DSGN 5003Digital Illustration

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DSGN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DSGN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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