AF AMER 201BSurvey of African American Studies Research Part 2: Introduction to Research Methods
African American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Research methods and techniques speak to manner of collecting data and carrying out investigations. Research methodologies are groupings of procedures and practices used to illuminate and organize data and phenomena. Exploration of range of research methodologies prominent in Black/Africana studies. Students engage uses of archival research, textual analysis, oral history sources, sound analysis, digital media studies, and quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and interpretation. Instructor operates primarily as coordinator, arranging guest presentations and recorded lectures by departmental faculty.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 201A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
AF AMER 201B
- AF AMER 201ASurvey of Black Studies Research: Themes, Issues, and Concepts
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
AF AMER 201B
- AF AMER 201CResearch Proposal Writing Seminar
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.