SOC GEN M72ASex from Biology to Gendered Society
Society and Genetics · 6 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
(Same as Communication M72A, Clusters M72A, and Sociology M72A.) Course M72A is enforced requisite to M72B, which is enforced requisite to M72CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Examination of many ways in which sex and sexual identity shape and are shaped by biological and social forces, approached from complementary perspectives of anthropology, biology, medicine, and sociology. Specific topics include biological origins of sex differences, intersex, gender identity, gender inequality, homosexuality, sex differences, sex/gender and law, and politics of sex research.
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.
SOC GEN M72A
- SOC GEN M72BSex from Biology to Gendered Society
- SOC GEN M72CWSex from Biology to Gendered Society: Special Topics
- 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
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.