SOCI at James Madison 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 SOCI coursework.

• SOCI 200Development of Sociological Thought and Methodopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• SOCI 300Sociological Inquiryopens 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 SOCI 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 8 SOCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 50 more SOCI 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 SOCI, 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 SOCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at SOCI 480

  1. SOCI 101Introductory Sociology
  2. SOCI 200Development of Sociological Thought and Method
  3. SOCI 300Sociological Inquiry
  4. SOCI 480Senior Seminar in Sociology

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOCI 410

  1. ANTH 195Cultural Anthropology [C4GE]
  2. SOCI 410Spatial Analysis for Social Research

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SOCI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOCI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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