CSE at University of Washington

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 CSE coursework.

• CSE 143Computer Programming IIopens 111 courses (19 directly)
• MATH 126Calculus with Analytic Geometry IIIopens 99 courses (10 directly)
• CSE 311Foundations of Computing Iopens 87 courses (16 directly)
• MATH 136Accelerated [Honors] Calculusopens 51 courses (23 directly)
• CSE 332Data Structures and Parallelismopens 37 courses (21 directly)
• AMATH 351Introduction to Differential Equations and Applicationsopens 30 courses (11 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 CSE 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 160 CSE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 64 more CSE 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 CSE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 12 courses deep, ending at CSE 587

  1. BIOEN 524Advanced Systems and Synthetic Biology
  2. CSE 587Advanced Systems and Synthetic Biology

• 11 courses deep, ending at CSE 487

  1. BIOEN 424Advanced Systems and Synthetic Biology
  2. CSE 487Advanced Systems and Synthetic Biology

• 11 courses deep, ending at CSE 488

  1. BIOEN 425Laboratory Methods in Synthetic Biology
  2. CSE 488Laboratory Methods in Synthetic Biology

• 9 courses deep, ending at CSE 549

  1. E E 545High-Performance Computer Architectures
  2. CSE 549High-Performance Computer Architectures

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CSE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CSE yet.

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Department events

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