SOC at University of Illinois Chicago

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 201Introductory Sociological Statisticsopens 8 courses (6 directly)
• SOC 224Gender and Societyopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• SOC 225Racial and Ethnic Groupsopens 3 courses (1.7 directly)
• MGMT 340Introduction to Organizationsopens 3 courses (1.3 directly)
• SOC 244Sociology of Workopens 3 courses (1.3 directly)
• ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Researchopens 3 courses (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 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 62 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 35 more SOC 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 SOC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at SOC 402

  1. MATH 108Intermediate Algebraic Concepts
  2. SOC 201Introductory Sociological Statistics
  3. SOC 401Sociological Statistics
  4. SOC 402Intermediate Sociological Statistics

• 4 courses deep, ending at SOC 407

  1. ENGL 160Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
  2. ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
  3. BLST 207Racism: Global Perspectives

• 4 courses deep, ending at SOC 503

  1. MATH 108Intermediate Algebraic Concepts
  2. SOC 201Introductory Sociological Statistics
  3. SOC 502Sociological Statistics

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOC 424

  1. GWS 101Gender in Everyday Life
  2. SOC 224Gender and Society
  3. SOC 424Sociology of Gender

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SOC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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