Building the department map…
Building the department map…
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’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 SOCI 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 SOCI 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 15 SOCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 108 more SOCI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on SOCI, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Any PLCY course at the 100 level or above, except PLCY 130 , PLCY 291 , PLCY 293 , PLCY 393 , or PLCY 394
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Core Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Five courses on the social and economic foundations of work.; One course on leadership and communication
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in SOCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at SOCI 395
2 courses deep, ending at SOCI 460
2 courses deep, ending at SOCI 692H
2 courses deep, ending at SOCI 717
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All SOCI courses in the UNC catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for SOCI yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under SOCI yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
SOCI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UNC campus feed.