ECON 429BProfessional Development for Emerging Economists II
Economics · 1 to 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Economics students. Designed to help students develop professional, communication, and presentation skills essential for success in professional business settings. Aids students in translating topics covered in other courses into language and format that is accessible to industry/non-academic settings. Students practice presenting for variety of professional audiences. Exploration of presentation skills, personal branding, salary negotiation, and interviewing techniques.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 429A.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 429B
- ECON 429AProfessional Development for Emerging Economists I
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.