ANTHRO 140

Study of Social Systems

Anthropology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Introduction to more specialized social anthropology courses. Evaluation of variation in sociocultural systems, with special emphasis on forms of inequality. Basic frameworks of anthropological analysis; historical context and development of social anthropology discipline.

P/NP or 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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 3.

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ANTHRO 3

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ANTHRO 140

ANTHRO 3Culture and Society

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

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.