POL SCI 30 · POLISCI 30Politics and Strategy
Political Science · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to study of strategic interaction in political applications. Use of game theory and other formal modeling strategies to understand politics.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
POL SCI 30
- POL SCI 141EElectoral Politics: Elections, Media, and Strategy
- POL SCI 171AApplied Formal Models: Collective Action and Social Movements
- POL SCI 171BCollective Choice and Majority Rule
- POL SCI 171DNegotiation
- POL SCI 172Strategy and Conflict
- POL SCI 179Special Topics in Methods and Models
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.