ESS 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 ESS 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 144 ESS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 80 more ESS 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 ESS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at ESS 475

  1. ATMOS 475Current Research in Climate Science Seminar
  2. ESS 475Current Research in Climate Science Seminar

• 7 courses deep, ending at ESS 467

  1. OCEAN 412Seismic Exploration
  2. ESS 467Seismic Exploration

• 7 courses deep, ending at ESS 559

  1. ATMOS 559Climate Modeling
  2. ESS 559Climate Modeling

• 7 courses deep, ending at ESS 564

  1. MATH 124Calculus with Analytic Geometry I
  2. MATH 125Calculus with Analytic Geometry II
  3. MATH 207Introduction to Differential Equations

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ESS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ESS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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