SOC at University of Iowa

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.

• CRIM 2470Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justiceopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SOC 2170Research Methodsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SOC 2130Sociological Theoryopens 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 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 29 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 67 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.

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOC 3170

  1. CRIM 1410Introduction to Criminology
  2. CRIM 2470Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  3. SOC 3170Applied Research

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 3530

  1. SOC 1010Introduction to Sociology
  2. SOC 3530Social Psychology of Small Groups

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 6425

  1. CRIM 5410Criminological Theory I
  2. SOC 6425Criminological Theory II

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 7175

  1. SOC 6170Introduction to Sociological Data Analysis
  2. SOC 7175Social Science Research: Big Data

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 Iowa campus feed.