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 Samford University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COMS 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 COMS 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 5 COMS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more COMS 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.
The deepest prerequisite chains in COMS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at COMS 491
2 courses deep, ending at COMS 461
All COMS courses in the Samford 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 COMS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under COMS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
COMS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Samford campus feed.