ADV at West Virginia University

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 ADV coursework.

• STCM 315Strategic Advertising and Public Relations Writingopens 5 courses (2.8 directly)
• ADV 315SAdvertising Copywritingopens 3 courses (0.8 directly)
• ADV 401SCreativeopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PR 324SPublic Relations Writing and Applicationsopens 1 course (0.3 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 ADV 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 18 ADV and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more ADV 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 ADV. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at ADV 455S

  1. ADPR 215Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations
  2. ADV 315SAdvertising Copywriting
  3. ADV 401SCreative
  4. ADV 455SCreative

• 3 courses deep, ending at ADV 415

  1. ADPR 215Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations
  2. STCM 315Strategic Advertising and Public Relations Writing
  3. ADV 415Ideation and Strategic Visualization

• 2 courses deep, ending at ADV 309

  1. ADV 201Advertising and Society
  2. ADV 309Advertising and Creativity

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ADV yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ADV yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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