After DESIGN 209
Gateway: DESIGN 209
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 DESIGN coursework.
Generated from University of Washington’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 DESIGN 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 29 DESIGN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 37 more DESIGN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: DESIGN 209
Gateway: DESIGN 376
Gateway: DESIGN 316
Gateway: DESIGN 215
The deepest prerequisite chains in DESIGN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
8 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 446
8 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 479
6 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 481
5 courses deep, ending at DESIGN 377
All DESIGN courses in the UW catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under DESIGN yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
DESIGN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UW campus feed.