SOC at Old Dominion 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 337Social Research Methodsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SOC 640Sociological Application of Computer and Data Analysisopens 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 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 52 SOC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 39 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 436

  1. CRJS 215SIntroduction to Criminology
  2. SOC 337Social Research Methods
  3. SOC 436Capstone Research Project

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOC 650

  1. SOC 610Applied Social Research Methods
  2. SOC 640Sociological Application of Computer and Data Analysis
  3. SOC 650Research Seminar

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 300

  1. SOC 201SIntroduction to Sociology
  2. SOC 300Social Problems

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOC 409W

  1. ENGL 211CWriting, Rhetoric, and Research
  2. SOC 409WSociological 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 Old Dominion campus feed.