Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate IDST coursework.
Generated from Virginia Commonwealth University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 IDST 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 8 IDST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more IDST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in IDST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at IDST 360
2 courses deep, ending at IDST 455
2 courses deep, ending at IDST 499
2 courses deep, ending at IDST 697
All IDST courses in the VCU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for IDST yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under IDST yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
IDST does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.