ATCM at The University of Texas at Dallas

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. ATCM 2301Digital Art and Design Foundations
  2. ATCM 3355Computer Modeling for Digital Fabrication
• 1. ATCM 2302Design I
  2. ATCM 3337Interaction Design I
• 1. ATCM 2355Survey of Digital Fabrication
  2. ATCM 3355Computer Modeling for Digital Fabrication

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 ATCM coursework.

• ATCM 2321Reading Media Criticallyopens 8 courses (1.5 directly)
• ATCM 2322Media Historiesopens 8 courses (1.5 directly)
• ANGM 3306Modeling and Texturing Iopens 4 courses (0.6 directly)
• ATCM 3321Networked Identitiesopens 3 courses (1.5 directly)
• ATCM 3355Computer Modeling for Digital Fabricationopens 3 courses (0.8 directly)
• ATCM 3337Interaction Design Iopens 2 courses (2 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 ATCM 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 74 ATCM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 94 more ATCM 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 ATCM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ATCM 4357

  1. ANGM 2310Animation and Game Fundamentals
  2. ANGM 3306Modeling and Texturing I
  3. ATCM 3355Computer Modeling for Digital Fabrication
  4. ATCM 3357Digital Fabrication Lab I
  5. ATCM 4357Digital Fabrication Lab II

• 4 courses deep, ending at ATCM 4322

  1. RHET 1302Rhetoric
  2. ATCM 2321Reading Media Critically
  3. ATCM 3321Networked Identities

• 4 courses deep, ending at ATCM 4326

  1. RHET 1302Rhetoric
  2. ATCM 2321Reading Media Critically
  3. ATCM 3320Critical Media Theories

• 3 courses deep, ending at ATCM 3375

  1. ANGM 2310Animation and Game Fundamentals
  2. ANGM 3365Game Design I
  3. ATCM 3375Game Systems Design

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ATCM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ATCM yet.

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Department events

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