GRAD PD 496BTeaching as Research
Graduate Student Professional Development · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Seminar, 90 minutes. Students become reflective practitioner by applying systematic and reflective use of research methods to develop teaching practices in order to advance learning experiences and outcomes of students and teachers. Students produce proposal for TAR project. May be repeated once for credit.
S/U grading.
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
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 496A or equivalent.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.50 · from text- GRAD PD 496A
- equivalent
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
GRAD PD 496B
- GRAD PD 496AIntroduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
GRAD PD 496B
- GRAD PD 496CImplementing and Communicating Teaching as Research Project
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.