DSGN at University of California, San Diego

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 DSGN coursework.

• COGS 187AUsability and Information Architectureopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• COGS 120Interaction Designopens 1 course (1 directly)
• COGS 187BPracticum in Professional Web Designopens 1 course (1 directly)
• COMM 124ACritical Design Practice/Advanced Studioopens 1 course (1 directly)
• DSGN 100Prototypingopens 1 course (1 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 DSGN 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 9 DSGN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more DSGN 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 DSGN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DSGN 118

  1. COGS 10Cognitive Consequences of Technology
  2. COGS 187AUsability and Information Architecture
  3. COGS 187BPracticum in Professional Web Design
  4. DSGN 118Design for Future Creativity and Productivity

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSGN 119

  1. DSGN 1Design of Everyday Things
  2. COMM 124ACritical Design Practice/Advanced Studio
  3. DSGN 119Design at Large

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DSGN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DSGN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

DSGN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UC San Diego campus feed.