ECON 106G

Introduction to Game Theory

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

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Enrollment priority to Business Economics majors. Introduction to basic ideas of game theory and strategic thinking. Discussion of ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, and signaling, with application to examples from economics, politics, business, and other real-life situations.

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
Requisite: course 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106GL.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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ECON 101

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text

ECON 106GL

Requires

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

ECON 106G

ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
  - ECON 1Principles of Economics
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
  - MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
ECON 106GLIntroduction to Game Theory Laboratory

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 106G

ECON 106GLIntroduction to Game Theory Laboratory
- ECON 106GIntroduction to Game Theoryanother path to it

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.