HIST 179AVariable Topics in History of Medicine
History · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Topics may include global health, biomedical technologies, gender and medicine, Chinese medicine, psychiatry and mental illness, medicine and empire, epidemics and infectious disease. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units with topic/instructor change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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.