VIS 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 VIS coursework.

• VIS 174Media Sketchbookopens 17 courses (16 directly)
• VIS 164Photographic Strategies: Looking and Seeingopens 11 courses (11 directly)
• VIS 142Practices in Computing Artsopens 9 courses (3 directly)
• VIS 112Theories and Methodsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• VIS 113ANHistory of Criticism I: Early Modernopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• VIS 165Black and White Darkroomopens 4 courses (4 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 VIS 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 109 VIS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 145 more VIS 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 VIS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at VIS 160B

  1. BILD 62Introduction to Python for Biologists
  2. VIS 142Practices in Computing Arts
  3. VIS 141AComputer Programming for the Arts I
  4. VIS 141BComputer Programming for the Arts II
  5. MUS 160ASenior Project in Computing Arts I
  6. VIS 160BSenior Project in Computing Arts II

• 4 courses deep, ending at VIS 105C

  1. VIS 80Introduction to the Studio Major
  2. VIS 105ADrawing: Representing the Subject
  3. VIS 105BDrawing: Practices and Genre

• 4 courses deep, ending at VIS 106C

  1. VIS 80Introduction to the Studio Major
  2. VIS 106APainting: Image Making
  3. VIS 106BPainting: Practices and Genre

• 4 courses deep, ending at VIS 107C

  1. VIS 80Introduction to the Studio Major
  2. VIS 107ASculpture: Making the Object
  3. VIS 107BSculpture: Practices and Genre

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for VIS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under VIS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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