Semester 1fall
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.
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.
Semester 1fall
Generated from University of Pennsylvania’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate NEUR 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 NEUR 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 NEUR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more NEUR 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: NEUR 1000
The deepest prerequisite chains in NEUR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at NEUR 1600
All NEUR courses in the Penn catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for NEUR yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under NEUR yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
Neuroscience does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.