After MATH 154
Gateway: MATH 154
Building the department map…
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.
Generated from West Virginia University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHYS coursework.
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 PHYS 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 40 PHYS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more PHYS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on PHYS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
STEM FOUNDATION COURSESchoose 1
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All ofall required
CORE COURSES15 required · verify with the official sheet
Any additional ASTR or PHYS course at the 300 level or above
AREA OF EMPHASIS13 required
CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE3 required
STEM FOUNDATIONSchoose 1
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: MATH 154
Gateway: PHYS 112
Gateway: PHYS 314
The deepest prerequisite chains in PHYS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
7 courses deep, ending at PHYS 452
4 courses deep, ending at PHYS 102
1 course from1 required
FOCUS AREAS11 required · verify with the official sheet
Select a minimum of 11 credits from the suggested areas below
ACS Certified Chemistchoose 1
Select two classes from the group below:
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CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE3 required
All PHYS courses in the WVU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for PHYS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under PHYS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
Physics does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WVU campus feed.