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 HIST coursework.
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.
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 HIST 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 9 HIST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 145 more HIST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on HIST, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Degree Core Requirementschoose 1
History Survey Sequence; Complementary Skills; Any of the following Foreign Language courses: 2105, 2106, 3105, 3106.; The second introductory semester of a foreign language not used to satisfy the admissions foreign language requirement.; Subtotal
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Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select two courses each in three of the following groups:; HIST Group I (Empires, Colonialism, and Globalization); HIST Group II (Ideas, Traditions, and Cultures); HIST Group III (Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine); HIST Group IV (Conflict, War and Peace); Subtotal
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in HIST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at HIST 4914
2 courses deep, ending at HIST 5134
2 courses deep, ending at HIST 5164
2 courses deep, ending at HIST 5484
Pathways to General Education2 required · verify with the official sheet
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Select six hours in Pathway 1f; Select three hours in Pathway 1a; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences; Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences; Select six hours in Pathway 4; Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking; Select three hours in Pathway 5f; Select
Pathways to General Education2 required · verify with the official sheet
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences; Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences; Select six credits in Pathway 4; Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking; Select six additional credits in Pathway 5a and/or Pathway 5f such that at least three credits are in Pa
Pathways to General Education2 required · verify with the official sheet
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Select three credits in Pathway 1a; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Select three hours in Pathway 2; Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences; Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences; Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking; Select six credits in Pathway 5f; Pathways Concept 6 - Critique and
All HIST courses in the Virginia Tech catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under HIST yet.
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