SOWK at Liberty 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 SOWK coursework.

• SOWK 270Ethics in Professional Helpingopens 22 courses (8.5 directly)
• MATH 121College Algebraopens 20 courses (4.0 directly)
• MATH 126Elementary Calculus for Business and Scienceopens 20 courses (2.2 directly)
• MATH 128Precalculus with Trigonometryopens 20 courses (1.2 directly)
• PSYC 255Introduction to Researchopens 17 courses (7 directly)
• SOWK 135Social Work Professional Explorationopens 17 courses (2 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 SOWK 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 50 SOWK and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 2 more SOWK 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 SOWK. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 10 courses deep, ending at SOWK 466

  1. MATH 126Elementary Calculus for Business and Science
  2. MATH 121College Algebra
  3. MATH 117Elements of Mathematics
  4. MATH 116Logic and Social Reasoning
  5. SOWK 365BSSW GATE 2 & Junior Field Enrollment
  6. SOWK 370Junior Field Experience and Seminar
  7. SOWK 462Children and Family Services and Practice
  8. SOWK 464Social Work Practice with Children and Adolescents
  9. SOWK 466Trauma-Informed Interventions with Children and Families

• 10 courses deep, ending at SOWK 494

  1. MATH 126Elementary Calculus for Business and Science
  2. MATH 121College Algebra
  3. MATH 117Elements of Mathematics

• 8 courses deep, ending at SOWK 452

  1. MATH 126Elementary Calculus for Business and Science
  2. MATH 121College Algebra
  3. MATH 117Elements of Mathematics

• 7 courses deep, ending at SOWK 495

  1. MATH 126Elementary Calculus for Business and Science
  2. MATH 121College Algebra
  3. MATH 117Elements of Mathematics

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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Department events

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