SOCIOL at University of California, Berkeley

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 SOCIOL coursework.

• SOCIOL 140Politics and Social Changeopens 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 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 71 SOCIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 126 more SOCIOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SOCIOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 149

  1. SOCIOL 1Introduction to Sociology
  2. SOCIOL 140Politics and Social Change
  3. SOCIOL 149Selected Topics in Sociology of Politics and Social Change

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 104

  1. SOCIOL 101Sociological Theory I
  2. SOCIOL 104The Global Environmental Crisis

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 105

  1. SOCIOL 5Evaluation of Evidence
  2. SOCIOL 105Research Design and Sociological Methods

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOCIOL 273M

  1. SOCIOL 273LComputational Social Science
  2. SOCIOL 273MComputational Social Science

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SOCIOL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOCIOL yet.

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Department events

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