Building the department map…
Building the department map…
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.
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.
Generated from Eastern Kentucky University’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 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 24 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more SOC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
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General Education; Foundations of Learning; Upper division courses (42 hours distributed throughout Major/Supporting/Gen Ed/Free Electives categories)
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Core Courses; Choose from three hours of the following:; Choose from three hours of CSC, DSC, MAT, STA courses numbered 300 or above; Major Electives; Data Science:; Discrete Mathematics:; Statistics (recommended for students who want to attend graduate school):; Accounting:; Agriculture:; Anthropology and Sociology:; Biology and Environmental Health Sciences:; Management Information Systems:; Com
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in SOC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at SOC 395
2 courses deep, ending at SOC 245
2 courses deep, ending at SOC 322
2 courses deep, ending at SOC 399
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All SOC courses in the EKU catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for SOC yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under SOC yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SOC does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the EKU campus feed.