ECON 173AXIntroduction to Social Entrepreneurship
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course 173AX is requisite to 173BX. Full-scale immersion into world of social entrepreneurship. Introduction to basics of business planning for social enterprises. Students are assigned in teams to work with participating social enterprises in Los Angeles area to implement new revenue-generating business plan for social enterprises to which they are assigned. Teams receive support from MBA student volunteers as advisers on how to work effectively together and how to resolve issues that arise with staff of assigned social enterprise. Courses 173AX and 173BX must be taken in consecutive terms. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 173BX).
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.
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.
ECON 173AX
- ECON 173BXIntroduction to Social Entrepreneurship
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.