POL SCI 200A

Probability and Inference for Social Science

Political Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Basic topics in probability, the mathematical framework developed to help us think systematically and logically in face of uncertainty.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

Nothing — this is an entry point.

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

POL SCI 200A

POL SCI 200BRegression Analysis for Social Science
- POL SCI 200CCausal Inference for Social Scienceanother path to it
POL SCI 200CCausal Inference for Social Science
- POL SCI 200XData Analysis Workshop
- POL SCI 200YData Analysis Workshop I
  - POL SCI 200ZData Analysis Workshop IIanother path to it
- POL SCI 200ZData Analysis Workshop II

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.