SBIO 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 SBIO coursework.

• CHEM 1035General Chemistryopens 14 courses (3 directly)
• CHEM 1036General Chemistryopens 10 courses (5 directly)
• CHEM 2535Organic Chemistryopens 5 courses (2.5 directly)
• PHYS 2305Foundations of Physicsopens 5 courses (1.5 directly)
• SBIO 3224Packaging Distribution Systemsopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• PHYS 2205General Physicsopens 3 courses (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 SBIO 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 43 SBIO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 60 more SBIO 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 SBIO, 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 SBIO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at SBIO 4424

  1. MATH 1014Precalculus with Transcendental Functions
  2. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  3. CHEM 1036General Chemistry
  4. CHEM 2535Organic Chemistry
  5. CHEM 2536Organic Chemistry
  6. SBIO 4424Polysaccharide Chemistry

• 5 courses deep, ending at SBIO 3444

  1. MATH 1014Precalculus with Transcendental Functions
  2. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  3. CHEM 1036General Chemistry

• 4 courses deep, ending at SBIO 3524

  1. MATH 1014Precalculus with Transcendental Functions
  2. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  3. SBIO 2124Structure and Properties of Sustainable Biomaterials

• 4 courses deep, ending at SBIO 4224

  1. SBIO 2104Principles of Packaging
  2. SBIO 3224Packaging Distribution Systems
  3. SBIO 4024Packaging Design for Global Distribution

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SBIO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SBIO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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