CESC 104Educators for Tomorrow Cohort Seminar
Community Engagement and Social Change · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Students are exposed to the second and third phases of the research process. Through varied course readings, testimonies, guest speakers, and interactive assignments, students individually and collectively discuss, explore, and learn best practices for data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, and writing up data. Students present their preliminary findings at UCLA Undergraduate Research Week. Alongside working on independent empirical research projects, students are walked through the graduate school application process and graduate school search. Study is designed to challenge students and make them think critically about their role as a present and future education leader. Students’ own educational experiences, professional work, and research project aid them in becoming better acquainted with the wide-ranging issues plaguing the current K-16 education system, and empowers them to be a social justice educator.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
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.