SOWK at West Virginia 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 SOWK coursework.

• SOWK 320Social Work Methodsopens 7 courses (6 directly)
• SOWK 300Social Welfare Policy and Servicesopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• SOWK 330Human Behavior in the Social Environmentopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• SOWK 322Social Work Methodsopens 2 courses (2 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 SOWK 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 14 SOWK and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more SOWK 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 SOWK. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at SOWK 324

  1. SOWK 147Human Diversity
  2. SOWK 320Social Work Methods
  3. SOWK 322Social Work Methods
  4. SOWK 324Methods

• 3 courses deep, ending at SOWK 310

  1. SOWK 151Introduction to Social Work
  2. SOWK 300Social Welfare Policy and Services
  3. SOWK 310Social Welfare Policy and Services

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SOWK yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOWK yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SOWK does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WVU campus feed.