SOC WLF M249CLogic of Inference and Causation
Social Welfare · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Urban Planning M208B.) Required in first or second year of PhD program. Development of researchable hypotheses and accompanying research design strategies, understanding of threats to validity, review of critiques of traditional methods and of alternative approaches to scholarship.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses M249A, M249B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SOC WLF M249C
- SOC WLF M249AIntroduction to Luskin PhD Research
- SOC WLF M249BIntroduction to Qualitative Research
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.