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.
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.
A suggested order for the 10 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
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Semester 4spring
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate URBS 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 URBS 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 10 URBS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 245 more URBS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on URBS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Core Courses; Breadth Requirements; Students are required to take at least 2 courses in each of 3 substantive areas: the criminal justice system, systems of stratification, and social problems and policy.; 1. The Criminal Justice System (2 CU); 2. Systems of Stratification (2 CU - Must be in different areas. For example, if you take one course under "Race and Ethnicity," the other must be under "I
Major Requirementsall required
Methods; Urban Internship Seminar; Senior Seminar; Concentration; Select 3 course units in a discipline or theme of interest with: Attribute ARDC; Urban Studies Themes; Select 1 course unit in History of Cities; Attribute ARHC - History of Cities; Select 1 course unit in Comparative and Theoretical Dimensions; Attribute ARCT - Comparative and Theoretical Dimensions; Select 1 course unit in The Bui
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1 course from1 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in URBS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at URBS 4010
2 courses deep, ending at URBS 3930
2 courses deep, ending at URBS 7060
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All URBS courses in the Penn catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under URBS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
URBS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.