BSOC at Cornell 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 BSOC coursework.

• BSOC 2051Ethical Issues in Health and Medicineopens 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 BSOC 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 4 BSOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 71 more BSOC 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 BSOC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at BSOC 3390

  1. ANTHR 1300Human Evolution: Genes, Behavior, and the Fossil Record
  2. BSOC 3390Primate Behavior and Ecology with Emphasis on African Apes

• 2 courses deep, ending at BSOC 4650

  1. BSOC 2051Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
  2. BSOC 4650Advanced Topics in Clinical Ethics

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

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

• Christine Leuenberger
• Jason Mokhtarian
• Paul Nadasdy
• Rachel Prentice
• Steven Wolf
• Suman Seth
• Tj Hinrichs

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BSOC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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