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POL SCI 10 · POLISCI 10Introduction to Political Theory

Political Science · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Exposition and analysis of selected political theorists and concepts from Plato to the present.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Summer 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

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UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

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POL SCI 10

POL SCI 113BPolitics, Theory, and Film
POL SCI 115EHumanist Practice and Civic Culture
POL SCI 118Laws of War and Peace from Conquest of America to Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.