GENDER 204Research Design and Professional Development
Gender Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Required of third-year gender studies graduate students. To be taken after all other coursework is complete; primarily geared toward proposal writing for dissertations and outside grants. Process of constructing dissertation proposals by providing structured process with incremental steps toward writing of dissertation proposal draft. Professional development for students as they prepare to enter academia or other professions. Help in preparation for fall grant-writing season, exploration of job/interview process, development of materials to assist in teaching, and analysis of various job markets. May be repeated once for credit with instructor 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.