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ECON 177Field Projects in Investing

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

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Enrollment by application only. Experiential learning tool and seminar course where students complete significant research on investment-related topic. Participating students are paired with asset management firm and engage regularly to complete research project. Designed to expose students to real-world practice of asset valuation, including applications of tools and inputs (including economics, accounting, and quantitative techniques) in asset valuation.

Letter grading.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Enforced requisites: courses 167, 168, 169.

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  • ECON 167
  • ECON 168
  • ECON 169

Requires

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

ECON 177

  • ECON 167Victims and Villains; Panics and Bubbles
    • ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
      • ECON 11Microeconomic Theory3 more beneath
    • MGMT 1APrinciples of Accounting
    • MGMT 1BPrinciples of Accounting
      • MGMT 1APrinciples of Accountinganother path to it
  • ECON 168Introduction to Principles of Value Investing
    • ECON 101Microeconomic Theoryanother path to it
    • MGMT 1APrinciples of Accountinganother path to it
    • MGMT 1BPrinciples of Accountinganother path to it
  • ECON 169Applied Value Investing
    • ECON 101Microeconomic Theoryanother path to it
    • ECON 168Introduction to Principles of Value Investinganother path to it
    • MGMT 1APrinciples of Accountinganother path to it

3 direct requisites. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.