SOC WLF M249AIntroduction to Luskin PhD Research
Social Welfare · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Urban Planning M208A.) Required of first-year PhD students. Introduction to design and execution of public affairs research; exploration of subfields of public affairs scholarship and approaches to research on contemporary topics in social welfare and urban planning. Preparation and filing of PhD program of study.
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 M249A
- SOC WLF M249BIntroduction to Qualitative Research
- SOC WLF M249CLogic of Inference and Causation
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.