After PHS 3634
Gateway: PHS 3634
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 PHS 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 PHS 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 30 PHS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 46 more PHS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at PHS 4054
3 courses deep, ending at PHS 5024
3 courses deep, ending at PHS 5944
2 courses deep, ending at PHS 3074
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Subtotal; Human Development Electives; Select three of the following (at least two must be at the 3000 or 4000 level):; Content Electives; Select two of the following specific courses or courses from HD 1XXX, HD 2XXX, HD 3XXX, NEUR 2XXX, NEUR 3XXX, SOC 2XXX, SOC 3XXX, SOC 4XXX, WGS 2XXX, WGS 3XXX, and/or WGS 4XXX content courses. Enrollment is subject to space available and prerequisites completed
Pathways to General Education2 required · verify with the official sheet
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Select six credits in Pathway 2; 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
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Technical Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select 15 credit hours of the following. (Courses not listed require Program Director approval.); Up to 3 credit hours can be selected from the following courses:; Subtotal
Pathways to General Education2 required · verify with the official sheet
Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse; Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities; Select six credits 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; Pathways Concept 6 - Critique and Practice in Design and the Arts; Select three credits in Pathway 6d; S
All PHS courses in the Virginia Tech catalog
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