Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SOCL coursework.
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 SOCL 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 16 SOCL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 97 more SOCL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Generated from Loyola University Chicago’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
The concentrations and majors that build on SOCL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Basic Courseschoose 1
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Concentration Area Courseschoose 1
Child, Adolescent and Family Services; Mental Health; Gerontology and Aging
Elective Courses2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select two courses (six credit hours), one from each of the following categories:; Social Solutions and Social Change; Human Diversity
Foundationsall required
Culture Course; Research Course
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Policy Choiceall required
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in SOCL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at SOCL 311
2 courses deep, ending at SOCL 121
2 courses deep, ending at SOCL 267
2 courses deep, ending at SOCL 365
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Ethnographic Area Coursechoose 1
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Anthropology Electiveschoose 1
Any additional 200-300-level ANTH course
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Concentrationchoose 1
At least two courses must be 200-level or higher and one must be 300-level or higher.; History Concentration; Literature & Arts Concentration; Social Sciences Concentration
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Policy, Economics, and Resource Managementchoose 1
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Methods and Analysischoose 1
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Environmental Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Choose four, at least one of which must be from List A and at least one of which must be at the 300 level):; List A; List B; BIOL, CHEM, PHYS 300-level courses (with SES approval)
All SOCL courses in the Loyola Chicago catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for SOCL yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under SOCL yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SOCL does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Loyola Chicago campus feed.