DES 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 DES coursework.

• DES 327Interactive Design I (Units: 3)opens 8 courses (4.9 directly)
• DES 300Design Process (Units: 3)opens 7 courses (3.9 directly)
• DES 325Graphic Design I (Units: 3)opens 7 courses (3.4 directly)
• DES 322Digital Design Foundations II (Units: 3)opens 5 courses (3.4 directly)
• DES 425Graphic Design II (Units: 3)opens 3 courses (2.5 directly)
• DES 310Product Design I (Units: 3)opens 3 courses (1.7 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 DES 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 46 DES and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 18 more DES 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 DES. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DES 505

  1. DES 200Visual Design Literacy (Units: 3)
  2. DES 300Design Process (Units: 3)
  3. DES 410Product Design II (Units: 3)
  4. DES 505Senior Design Project (Units: 3)

• 4 courses deep, ending at DES 525

  1. DES 200Visual Design Literacy (Units: 3)
  2. DES 325Graphic Design I (Units: 3)
  3. DES 425Graphic Design II (Units: 3)

• 4 courses deep, ending at DES 527

  1. DES 200Visual Design Literacy (Units: 3)
  2. DES 327Interactive Design I (Units: 3)
  3. DES 427Interactive Design II (Units: 3)

• 3 courses deep, ending at DES 485

  1. DES 200Visual Design Literacy (Units: 3)
  2. DES 310Product Design I (Units: 3)
  3. DES 485Delightful Design (Units: 3)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DES yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DES yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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