PUB PLC 234AVoting Rights Policy and Law I
Public Policy · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Collaborative course taught from perspective of social science research, civil rights, and voting rights. Exposes students to voting rights act theory, case law, history, research, and implementation. Faculty guest experts from across campus provide their perspective on how to study, research, and document various aspects related to voting rights. Includes factors such as history of discrimination against minority group in areas of employment, education, housing, and political representation. Students learn and implement in-depth study of methodology and statistical approach to document presence or absence of vote dilution or vote denial in different jurisdictions. Discussion of history and legal principles of federal Voting Rights Act and California Voting Rights Act led by leading voting rights attorney. May be repeated for credit.
S/U or 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.
PUB PLC 234A
- PUB PLC 234BVoting Rights Policy and Law II
- PUB PLC 234CVoting Rights Policy and Law III
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.