SOC at Brown University

A suggested order for the 10 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 SOC coursework.

• SOC 2010Multivariate Statistical Methods Iopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SOC 1020Methods of Social Researchopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)
• SOC 1100Introductory Statistics for Social Researchopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SOC 2020Multivariate Statistical Methods IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SOC 2612Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciencesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SOC 2430Fields and Methods of Social Researchopens 1 course (0.5 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 SOC 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 10 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 172 more SOC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on SOC, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SOC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 1120

  1. SOC 1020Methods of Social Research
  2. SOC 1120Market and Social Surveys

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 2960S

  1. SOC 2010Multivariate Statistical Methods I
  2. SOC 2960SStatistical Methods for Hierarchical and Panel Data

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 2961B

  1. SOC 2612Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences
  2. SOC 2961BApplications in Geographic Information Systems

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on SOC sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• Ananda Martin-Caughey
• Andrew Schrank
• Carrie Spearin
• Christopher Rea
• Courtney Boen
• Emily Rauscher
• Gustavo De Almeida Silva
• Han Zhang
• Jennifer Candipan
• John Diamond
• John Eason
• Jose Itzigsohn
• Josh Pacewicz
• Katherine Thompson
• Laura Lopez Sanders
• Margot Jackson
• Michael Kennedy
• Michela Musto
• Nitsan Chorev
• Patrick Heller
• Poulami Roychowdhury
• Prudence Carter
• Rachel Wetts
• Sandra Barnes
• Scott Frickel
• Susan Short
• Zhenchao Qian

Brown professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOC yet.

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Department events

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