GEOG 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 GEOG coursework.

• ENV 205Our Environment Through Data (Units: 3)opens 11 courses (4.6 directly)
• MATH 226Calculus I (Units: 4)opens 1 course (1 directly)
• ERTH 505Quantitative Methods in Earth Sciences (Units: 3)opens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• GEOG 427Agriculture and Food Supply (Units: 4)opens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• GEOG 603Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Units: 3)opens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)opens 1 course (0.2 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 GEOG 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 43 GEOG and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 48 more GEOG 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 GEOG, 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 GEOG. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GEOG 642

  1. ERTH 112Our Dynamic Earth Lecture and Lab (Units: 4)
  2. ENV 205Our Environment Through Data (Units: 3)
  3. GEOG 603Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Units: 3)
  4. GEOG 642Watershed Assessment and Restoration (Units: 4)

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOG 317

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)
  3. GEOG 317Soils (Units: 4)

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOG 342

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. ERTH 505Quantitative Methods in Earth Sciences (Units: 3)
  3. GEOG 342Surface Water Hydrology (Units: 4)

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOG 430

  1. GEOG 101Our Physical Environment (Units: 3)
  2. GEOG 427Agriculture and Food Supply (Units: 4)
  3. GEOG 430Transforming Food and Agriculture Systems: Local to Global (Units: 4)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GEOG yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GEOG yet.

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Department events

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