POL SCI 172 · POLISCI 172Strategy and Conflict
Political Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Intermediate topics in game theory applied to political problems, with special attention to strategic consequences of incomplete information and information asymmetries.
P/NP or letter 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
Enforced requisite: course 30.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
POL SCI 172
- POL SCI 30Politics and Strategy
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.