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.
Generated from University of California, Irvine’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHILOS coursework.
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 PHILOS 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 19 PHILOS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 77 more PHILOS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHILOS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
A. Complete:; B. Complete:; C. Select five of the following:; D. Complete 2 units of PHILOS 199 or 4 units of PHILOS 190
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHILOS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at PHILOS 106
3 courses deep, ending at PHILOS 205C
2 courses deep, ending at PHILOS 141B
All PHILOS courses in the UC Irvine 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 PHILOS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under PHILOS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
PHILOS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UC Irvine campus feed.