SOC WLF 284ADoctoral Research Apprenticeship
Social Welfare · 2 to 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to PhD students. Exposes first-year PhD students to process of conducting research in social welfare. Students develop range of research skills and understanding of ethical procedures in research. Students participate in various activities depending on specific research project with which they work. Activities include research tasks such as conducting literature reviews, developing research questions, collecting data, cleaning and preparing data, analyzing data, and writing up research findings for conference and journal submissions. Students work closely with their faculty mentor and other graduate students. Introduction to research process and skills necessary for conducting research in social sciences. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of courses 284B and 284C).
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Fall 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.