COMM at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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 COMM coursework.

• COMM 2660Introduction to Graphic Designopens 5 courses (3.3 directly)
• COMM 2520Communication Theory and Practiceopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)
• COMM 2570Typographyopens 2 courses (0.8 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 COMM 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 14 COMM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more COMM 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 COMM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 4288

  1. COMM 2520Communication Theory and Practice
  2. COMM 4288Health Communication in Practice

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 4320

  1. ARCH 2520Digital Constructs 1
  2. COMM 4320Visual Poetics and Narrative

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 4470

  1. COMM 2660Introduction to Graphic Design
  2. COMM 4470Information Design

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 4690

  1. CSCI 1100Computer Science I
  2. COMM 4690Interface Design: Hypermedia Theory and Application

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COMM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COMM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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