SOCY at Yale 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 SOCY coursework.

• SOCY 5800Comparative and Historical Methodsopens 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 SOCY 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 2 SOCY and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 308 more SOCY 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 SOCY. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at SOCY 5620

  1. SOCY 5800Comparative and Historical Methods
  2. SOCY 5620Intermediate Methods in Quantitative Sociology

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on SOCY sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Escamilla Garcia
• A. Manning
• A. McClean
• A. Menon
• D. Karell
• D. Williams
• E. Erikson
• E. Wood
• E. Zang
• G. Kao
• I. Aboaf
• I. Mares
• J. Adams
• j. Wahutu
• J. Wyrtzen
• Karell
• L. Carpenter
• M. Tahir
• Menon
• N. Christakis
• P. North
• P. Smith
• P. Solomon
• Papademetris
• R. O'Brien
• S. Boorman
• Sotoudeh
• Wood
• Wyrtzen
• Y. Hsiao
• Y. Karakaya

Yale professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SOCY yet.

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Department events

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