EDUC 173Dialog across Difference
Education · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Offers safe and inviting space to engage in open, constructive discourse on issues related to social identities, such as race/ethnicity, socio-economic class, and sexual orientation identities. Students learn from one another’s perspectives, participate in experiential learning exercises, read and discuss relevant materials, and explore their own and other groups’ experiences in various social and institutional contexts. Offers opportunities to appreciate and learn to bridge differences, discover and maximize commonalities, interact with others around controversial issues pertaining to various forms of privilege and oppression, and work to help create social change.
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
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.