SOC WLF 229ACraft of Social Welfare Scholarship I
Social Welfare · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to PhD students. Exploration of one problem for study—its history, current state of knowledge about why problem exists, and what might be done about it. Survey of several problems and alternative ways in which problems have been conceptualized and studied to understand how scholars use theory and empirical evidence to advance what is known, what is yet unknown, where there are important gaps in understanding particular problems, and what might be done to solve them.
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 WLF 229A
- SOC WLF 229BCraft of Social Welfare Scholarship II
- SOC WLF 229CCraft of Social Welfare Scholarship III
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.