DCS at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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 DCS coursework.

• DCS 401Ethnographic Filmmaking/SL.opens 3 courses (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 DCS 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 6 DCS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more DCS 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 DCS, 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 DCS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at DCS 455

  1. DCS 101Media, Culture and Society
  2. DCS 401Ethnographic Filmmaking/SL.
  3. DCS 455Professional Producing

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DCS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DCS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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