GSWS at Virginia Commonwealth University

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 GSWS 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 41 GSWS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 40 more GSWS 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 GSWS, 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 GSWS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GSWS 415

  1. DANC 104Survey of Dance History
  2. DANC 103Survey of Dance History
  3. GSWS 415Black Performance Theory

• 3 courses deep, ending at GSWS 352

  1. ENGL 295Introduction to Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature
  3. GSWS 352Feminist Literary Theory

• 2 courses deep, ending at GSWS 301

  1. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  2. GSWS 301Feminist Theory

• 2 courses deep, ending at GSWS 302

  1. GSWS 202Introduction to Trans Studies
  2. GSWS 302Trans Theory and Activism

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GSWS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GSWS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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