POL SCI 115B · POLISCI 115BRacial Disagreement
Political Science · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
May not be taken concurrently with course 122C. Exploration of why people disagree, and cannot agree to disagree, and how they might come to an agreement. The approach is applied and empirical with use of case studies, student game play, and in-class simulations. Covers normative disagreement between and within ethical frameworks: utilitarianism, rights, justice-fairness, and virtue ethics; and within utilitarianism (for example, effective altruism versus effective accelerationism). Study of theories of disagreement such as evolutionary psychology, cultural theory, world values, systems theory, and the nature of belief systems in the mass public and among experts. Exploration of different types of disagreement: moral; political and party-political; religious and spiritual; between men and women; intracultural and cross-cultural; generational; expert-expert and expert-lay; insider-outsider, center-periphery, cosmopolitan-parochial, and urban-rural; premodern, modern, and anti-modern; scientific and conspiratorial; and meta-ethical.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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