SOC GEN 5Integrative Approaches to Human Biology and Society
Society and Genetics · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to concept of problem-based approaches to study of biology and society and areas of concentration, such as bioethics and public science policy, evolutionary biology, culture, and behavior, historical and social studies of life sciences, medical genetics and public health, and population genetics and history, and central thematic issues shared across concentrations, such as commercialization of life and public understanding of science.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Summer 2026
- Winter 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.
SOC GEN 5
- SOC GEN 105AWays of Knowing in Life and Human Sciences
- SOC GEN 174What's Wrong with Science?
- SOC GEN 191RCapstone Seminar: Human Biology and Society
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.