AF AMER 201CResearch Proposal Writing Seminar
African American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Designed for first-year African American Studies graduate students. Students are assisted in conceptualizing, designing, and writing research proposals. Introduction to other professional research skills which help students prepare for graduate study, academics, and/or research according to their respective areas of interest. Skills include Institutional Review Boards (IRB) or research involving human subjects; securing research grants; funding and understanding their criteria; and writing statements of purpose and personal statements as students. Demystifies thesis writing process and provides students with basic tools for writing successful and highly publishable research essay or thesis.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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
Requisites: courses 201A, 201B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
AF AMER 201C
- AF AMER 201ASurvey of Black Studies Research: Themes, Issues, and Concepts
- AF AMER 201BSurvey of African American Studies Research Part 2: Introduction to Research Methods
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.