DES at The University of Texas at Austin

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 DES 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 55 DES and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 44 more DES 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 DES, 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 DES. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DES 341G

  1. DES 304Design Studio I
  2. DES 321Images in Communication
  3. DES 335Typography II
  4. DES 341GTypography III

• 4 courses deep, ending at DES 375

  1. DES 304Design Studio I
  2. DES 131Portfolio and Performance Review
  3. DES 370Senior Project in Design

• 3 courses deep, ending at DES 349

  1. DES 304Design Studio I
  2. DES 334Introduction to Interaction Design
  3. DES 349Interaction Design II

• 3 courses deep, ending at DES 358C

  1. DES 304Design Studio I
  2. DES 314Introduction to Industrial Design
  3. DES 358CIndustrial Design I

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DES yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DES yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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