After COGS 10B
Gateway: COGS 10B
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Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Generated from University of California, Irvine’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COGS 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 COGS 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 COGS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 51 more COGS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on COGS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
A. Required Major Coursesall required
Complete the following:
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B. Cognitive Sciences Core2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select three from the following:; Select three upper-division core courses from the following:
C. Research Methods2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select three from the following:
D. Background in Science2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select six from the following:; or; with labs PHYSICS 7LC and PHYSICS 7LD; NOTE: Careful selection should be made in order to satisfy general education requirements and prerequisites for upper-division courses.
E. Upper-Division Core Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select seven courses from the following list. Up to three courses may also be taken from section B and C:
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in COGS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at COGS 112C
3 courses deep, ending at COGS 157M
3 courses deep, ending at COGS 161H
2 courses deep, ending at COGS 109
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D. Background in Science2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select six courses from the following list. Selected courses must be taken from, at minimum, three different disciplines:
Anthropologyall required
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International Studies1 required
Political Scienceall required
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Public Healthall required
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Social Ecology1 required
B. Upper-Division Requirementschoose 1
Select two of the following:; Three additional upper-division courses with at least two courses chosen from the Public Health Sciences topic area.
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Public Health Sciences2 required · verify with the official sheet
C. Practicum Requirementall required
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All COGS courses in the UC Irvine catalog
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