PUB AFF 180Lawyers, Law, and Public Affairs
Public Affairs · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Interplay between public affairs, public policy, and law represents one of most significant and fundamental aspects of American democracy. Students gain tools necessary for understanding how law shapes public policy, and how public policy shapes law. Covers key skills for understanding legal reasoning and shows how those skills operate in various substantive legal policy areas.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.