PUB AFF 10Social Problems and Social Change
Public Affairs · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to social scientific approaches to study of social problems and their solutions. Using selected contemporary social problems as cases, and drawing on variety of sources (such as scholarly readings, video clips, and guest speakers), exploration of how social problems and their solutions come to be defined, roles that economic, political, educational, and cultural institutions play in perpetuating or solving social problems, and how individuals, social advocates, and communities can lead or impede social change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- 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.
PUB AFF 10
- PUB PLC 187Research Seminar: Public Policy
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.