EPS at Yale 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 EPS coursework.

• CHEM 1650General Chemistry IIopens 1 course (1 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 EPS 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 7 EPS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 189 more EPS 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 EPS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at EPS 3190

  1. CHEM 1610General Chemistry I
  2. CHEM 1650General Chemistry II
  3. EPS 3190Introduction to the Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials

• 2 courses deep, ending at EPS 2320

  1. EPS 1250History of Life
  2. EPS 2320Earth Surface Processes

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on EPS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Fedorov
• Grewal
• J. Ague
• J. Korenaga
• J. Lora
• J. Park
• J. Wettlaufer
• L. Tarhan
• Lora
• M. Long
• P. Coppi
• P. Hull
• Pomposi
• R. Blake
• S. Karato
• Timmermans
• W. Stewart

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under EPS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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