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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 University of Wisconsin-Madison’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 COM ARTS 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 COM ARTS 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 45 COM ARTS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 78 more COM ARTS 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: COM ARTS 350
Gateway: COM ARTS 355
Gateway: COM ARTS 351
Gateway: COM ARTS 465
The deepest prerequisite chains in COM ARTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at COM ARTS 659
4 courses deep, ending at COM ARTS 656
3 courses deep, ending at COM ARTS 181
3 courses deep, ending at COM ARTS 272
All COM ARTS courses in the UW–Madison catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for COM ARTS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under COM ARTS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
COM ARTS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UW–Madison campus feed.