ASTR at University of Washington

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 ASTR 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 25 ASTR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 37 more ASTR 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 ASTR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at ASTR 482

  1. PHYS 123Waves, Light, and Heat
  2. PHYS 224Thermal Physics
  3. ASTR 322The Contents of Our Galaxy
  4. ASTR 323Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
  5. ASTR 300Introduction to Programming for Astronomical Applications
  6. ASTR 480Introduction to Astronomical Data Analysis
  7. ASTR 481Introduction to Astronomical Observation
  8. ASTR 482Writing Scientific Papers

• 4 courses deep, ending at ASTR 419

  1. PHYS 123Waves, Light, and Heat
  2. PHYS 224Thermal Physics
  3. ASTR 321The Solar System

• 3 courses deep, ending at ASTR 532

  1. PHYS 421Contemporary Atomic Physics
  2. ASTR 531Stellar Interiors
  3. ASTR 532Stellar Evolution

• 2 courses deep, ending at ASTR 558

  1. ASTR 507Physical Foundations of Astrophysics I
  2. ASTR 558Exoplanets

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ASTR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ASTR yet.

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Department events

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