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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ECE coursework.
Generated from University of Alabama at Birmingham’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 ECE 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 14 ECE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 6 more ECE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ECE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Blazer Core Curriculum15 required · verify with the official sheet
As part of the Blazer Core take the following:; Blazer Core Reasoning Requirement; Blazer Core Thinking Broadly: History & Meaning; Blazer Core Thinking Broadly: Creative Arts; Blazer Core Thinking Broadly: Scientific Inquiry--Non-Biology Science course with a lab; Blaze Core Thinking Broadly: History & Meaning, The Creative Arts, or Humans & Their Societies
Professional Studiesall required
Teaching Field Courses2 required · verify with the official sheet
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ECE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at ECE 490
2 courses deep, ending at ECE 449
All ECE courses in the UAB 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 ECE yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under ECE yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
ECE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UAB campus feed.