Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate IDS 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 IDS 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 12 IDS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 23 more IDS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on IDS, 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;
Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education (ALCE)1 required
Biomedical Engineering (BMES)1 required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in IDS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
7 courses deep, ending at IDS 4016
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Chemistry (CHEM)1 required
Education, Curriculum & Instruction (EDCI)1 required
Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)1 required
Engineering Education (EngE)1 required
Nuclear Engineering and Science (NSEG)all required
Residential Environments and Design (RED)1 required
All IDS courses in the Virginia Tech catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for IDS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under IDS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
IDS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Virginia Tech campus feed.