MUSA at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 7 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 MUSA coursework.

• MUSA 5080Public Policy Analyticsopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)
• MUSA 5500Geospatial Data Science in Pythonopens 1 course (1 directly)
• MUSA 5000Statistical and Data Mining Methods for Urban Data Analysisopens 1 course (0.5 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 MUSA 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 7 MUSA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 23 more MUSA 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 MUSA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at MUSA 6500

  1. MUSA 5080Public Policy Analytics
  2. MUSA 6500Deep Learning with Python

• 2 courses deep, ending at MUSA 8010

  1. CPLN 5050Planning by Numbers
  2. MUSA 8010MUSA/Smart Cities Practicum

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MUSA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MUSA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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