SOC GEN 191SCapstone Seminar: Society and Genetics
Society and Genetics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Discussion of genetics and society from historical perspective. How science of genetics itself is deeply social. Study of how biologists and anthropologists have conceptualized relations of genes and (social) environment. Reading of accounts of human nature, human flourishing, and dignity that seem to privilege nature as something that can guide ethical thought and action. How these accounts would encourage or discourage people from manipulating their genetic inheritance. Consideration of what is new in new genetics. Current discussions of promise and peril of genetics in relation to society. Culminating paper required. May be repeated once for credit with topic change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 101 (or Life Sciences 4), M102.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SOC GEN 191S
- SOC GEN 101Genetic Concepts for Human Sciences
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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.