COMM 129Natural Language Processing for Social Science
Communication · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Development of understanding of natural language processing (NLP) model architectures. Students gain experience accessing, evaluating, and thoughtfully engaging with those models at scale. Includes applications to current societal issues.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Fall 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.