DASC at Virginia Tech

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 DASC coursework.

• ALS 3204Animal Nutrition and Feedingopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• DASC 3474Dairy Information Systemsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ALS 3104Animal Breeding and Geneticsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ALS 3304Physiology of Reproductionopens 1 course (1 directly)
• DASC 4475Dairy Enterprise Managementopens 1 course (0.5 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 DASC 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 20 DASC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 18 more DASC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in DASC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at DASC 3274

  1. ALS 2304Comparative Animal Physiology and Anatomy
  2. ALS 3204Animal Nutrition and Feeding
  3. DASC 3274Applied Dairy Cattle Nutrition

• 3 courses deep, ending at DASC 4174

  1. DASC 2474Dairy Science and Industry
  2. ALS 3104Animal Breeding and Genetics
  3. DASC 4174Applied Dairy Cattle Genetics

• 3 courses deep, ending at DASC 4476

  1. DASC 2474Dairy Science and Industry
  2. DASC 3474Dairy Information Systems
  3. DASC 4476Dairy Enterprise Management

• 2 courses deep, ending at DASC 2204

  1. AAEC 1005Economics of the Food and Fiber System
  2. DASC 2204Entrepreneurship in Animal Agriculture

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DASC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DASC yet.

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Department events

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