PUB AFF 116Using Qualitative Methods to Understand Social Problems and Their Potential Solutions
Public Affairs · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to qualitative research methods with focus on ethnographic observations, interviewing, and focus groups. Students practice conducting variety of qualitative methods.
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.
PUB AFF 116
- PUB AFF 198AHonors Research in Public Affairs
- PUB AFF 198BHonors Research in Public Affairs
- PUB AFF 198CHonors Research in Public Affairs
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.