POL SCI 172

Strategy and Conflict

Political Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisite: course 30.

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POL SCI 30

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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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