CAD at San Francisco State University

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 CAD coursework.

• CAD 215Foundations in Early Childhood (Units: 3)opens 2 courses (0.7 directly)
• CAD 600Child and Adolescent Development Internship Seminar (Unit: 1)opens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• CAD 601Child and Adolescent Development Internship (Units: 2)opens 1 course (0.3 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 CAD 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 20 CAD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more CAD courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on CAD, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CAD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at CAD 280

  1. ENG 114Writing the First Year: Finding Your Voice (Units: 3)
  2. CAD 215Foundations in Early Childhood (Units: 3)
  3. CAD 280Practicum in Early Childhood Education (Units: 3)

• 3 courses deep, ending at CAD 600

  1. CAD 601Child and Adolescent Development Internship (Units: 2)
  2. CAD 600Child and Adolescent Development Internship Seminar (Unit: 1)

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAD 326

  1. CAD 210Introduction to Applied Child and Adolescent Development (Units: 3)
  2. CAD 326Developing Language and Literacy Skills in Young Children (Units: 3)

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAD 500

  1. CAD 300Professional Roles and Careers in Child and Adolescent Development (Units: 3)
  2. CAD 500Research Methods in Child and Adolescent Development (Units: 3)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CAD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CAD yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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