After CMSC 255
Gateway: CMSC 255
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 INFO 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 INFO 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 44 INFO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more INFO courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on INFO, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Business analysisall required
Information and communications technologyall required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in INFO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at INFO 465
5 courses deep, ending at INFO 602
5 courses deep, ending at INFO 616
4 courses deep, ending at INFO 452
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All INFO courses in the VCU catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for INFO yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under INFO yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
Information Science does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.