Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Generated from Western Kentucky University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 ART 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 ART 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 84 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 31 more ART courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ART, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Foundation Coursesall required
Choose four of Beginning-Level Studio Courses12 required
Choose five Upper-Level Studio Electiveschoose 15
Select 2 Upper-Level Art History Electiveschoose 6
Required Art Education Pedagogy Coursesall required
World Religions1 required
Religious Traditions, Comparative Approaches, and Restricted Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select six courses from the following:
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: ART 270
Gateway: ART 260
Gateway: ART 280
Gateway: ART 220
Gateway: ART 350
The deepest prerequisite chains in ART. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
9 courses deep, ending at ART 465
9 courses deep, ending at ART 485
8 courses deep, ending at ART 425
7 courses deep, ending at ART 474
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Content Creation Electives (Choose THREE of the following courses; TWO must be at the 300+ level)choose 9
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Senior Seminar1 required
All ART courses in the WKU catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under ART yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
ART does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WKU campus feed.