ART at Virginia Tech

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. ART 1604Principles of 4D Art & Design
  2. ART 2604Introduction to Creative Technologies
• 1. ART 1614Principles of Visual Communication Design
  2. ART 2565Typography
  3. ART 2566Typography

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ART coursework.

• ART 2566Typographyopens 8 courses (6 directly)
• ART 2575Introduction to Graphic Designopens 8 courses (6 directly)
• ART 2576Introduction to Graphic Designopens 6 courses (5 directly)
• ART 3565Intermediate Graphic Design I and IIopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• ART 2604Introduction to Creative Technologiesopens 3 courses (2.3 directly)
• ART 2434Introduction to Creative Codeopens 3 courses (1 directly)

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 ART 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 52 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 67 more ART 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 ART, 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 ART. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at ART 4576

  1. ART 1614Principles of Visual Communication Design
  2. ART 2566Typography
  3. ART 2576Introduction to Graphic Design
  4. ART 3565Intermediate Graphic Design I and II
  5. ART 3566Intermediate Graphic Design II
  6. ART 4575Advanced Visual Communication Design
  7. ART 4576Advanced Visual Communication Design

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 4504

  1. ART 1614Principles of Visual Communication Design
  2. ART 2566Typography
  3. ART 2576Introduction to Graphic Design

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 4524

  1. ART 1204Principles of 2D Art and Design
  2. ART 1414Drawing II: Life Drawing
  3. ART 2524Introduction To Painting

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 4844

  1. ART 1604Principles of 4D Art & Design
  2. ART 2434Introduction to Creative Code
  3. ART 2804Introduction to Game Development

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ART yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ART yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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