SOC at North Carolina State 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 SOC coursework.

• SOC 300Social Research Methodsopens 18 courses (16.3 directly)
• PS 371Research Methodology of Political Scienceopens 2 courses (0.8 directly)
• SW 300Research Methods in Social Workopens 1 course (0.3 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 47 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 66 more SOC 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 SOC, 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 SOC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOC 320

  1. ST 311Introduction to Statistics
  2. PS 371Research Methodology of Political Science
  3. SOC 320Survey Design

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOC 402

  1. SOC 202Principles of Sociology
  2. SOC 300Social Research Methods
  3. SOC 402Urban Sociology

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 413

  1. SOC 306Criminology
  2. SOC 413Criminal Justice Field Work

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 702

  1. SOC 701Classical Sociological Theory
  2. SOC 702Contemporary Sociological Theory

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 NC State campus feed.