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.
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.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SEDP coursework.
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 SEDP 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 32 SEDP and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 52 more SEDP courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on SEDP, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
• Major core requirements; • Field-based learning and student teaching requirements
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in SEDP. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at SEDP 499
3 courses deep, ending at SEDP 401
2 courses deep, ending at SEDP 389
2 courses deep, ending at SEDP 460
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
English/double major; Linguistics, writing, criticism:; Additional linguistics, writing, criticism course; Literature, pre-1700:; Additional literature, pre-1700 course; Literature, 1700-1945:; Additional literature, 1700-1945 course; Literature, diversity:
Restricted electives6 required
English additional requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Experiential Fine Arts; Foreign language through the 102 level (by course or placement); Literary contexts: select a foreign language course through the 202 or 205 level (by course or placement) or six credits from the list below.
2 courses from2 required · verify with the official sheet
Economics:; Geography (select two courses from the list below):; International political science:; U.S. political science:; History/double major; Historical survey courses (100-level HIST); Junior seminar course (select from HIST 401 through HIST 422 ); Additional upper-level HIST courses ( HIST 301 through HIST 492 , excluding HIST 490 )
All SEDP courses in the VCU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for SEDP yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under SEDP yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SEDP does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.