Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CS&D coursework.
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.
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 CS&D 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 22 CS&D and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 50 more CS&D courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on CS&D, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Neurobiology Courses -complete all threeall required
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Distributed Neuroscience Coursework—complete 3 courses. Only one footnoted course may apply to this requirement.choose 9
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Required Neurobiology Courses -complete all threeall required
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in CS&D. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at CS&D 894
2 courses deep, ending at CS&D 303
2 courses deep, ending at CS&D 320
2 courses deep, ending at CS&D 434
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All CS&D courses in the UW–Madison catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under CS&D yet.
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CS&D does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UW–Madison campus feed.