Semester 1fall
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
A suggested order for the 35 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.
Generated from University of Pennsylvania’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 3fall
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 LALS 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 35 LALS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 258 more LALS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on LALS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Core Courses; Breadth Requirements; Students are required to take at least 2 courses in each of 3 substantive areas: the criminal justice system, systems of stratification, and social problems and policy.; 1. The Criminal Justice System (2 CU); 2. Systems of Stratification (2 CU - Must be in different areas. For example, if you take one course under "Race and Ethnicity," the other must be under "I
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in LALS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at LALS 1320
2 courses deep, ending at LALS 3652
All LALS courses in the Penn catalog
Grade medians are for verified students. Sign in with your school email to see them.
Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for LALS yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under LALS yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
LALS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.