After SOCIOL 206-0
Gateway: SOCIOL 206-0
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Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from Northwestern University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SOCIOL 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 SOCIOL 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 7 SOCIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 58 more SOCIOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on SOCIOL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Department Courses (12 units)all required
2 sociology courses at the 100 or 200 level; 3 courses in the methods of sociological research:; 1 course in sociological theory; 6 sociology courses at the 300 level
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in SOCIOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 227-0
2 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 398-2
All SOCIOL courses in the Northwestern catalog
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