After ARCH 2015
Gateway: ARCH 2015
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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 Tech’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 ARCH 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 ARCH 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 60 ARCH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 45 more ARCH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ARCH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Degree Core Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Subtotal
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select six credits from the following:; Subtotal
Pathways to General Educationchoose 1
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Select three credits in Pathway 1a; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences; Select six credits in Pathway 3; Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences; Select six credits in Pathway 4; Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking; Select three credits in Pathway 5a;
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ARCH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
8 courses deep, ending at ARCH 4516
7 courses deep, ending at ARCH 4424
6 courses deep, ending at ARCH 4124
5 courses deep, ending at ARCH 3066
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Pathways to General Educationchoose 1
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Select three credits in Pathway 2; Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences; Select three credits in Pathway 3; Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences; Select six credits in Pathway 4; Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking; Or; Or; Select three credits in Pa
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All ARCH courses in the Virginia Tech catalog
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