SOCIOL 203

How to Write a Lot

Sociology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed to help graduate students develop regular and productive writing practices. Appropriate for students in their second year or beyond who have one full draft of their MA paper written and want to revise and publish it in timely manner. Development of regular writing schedules and protecting them from competing demands. Learning of specific genres of writing for academic journals, books, and op-eds. Editing of students’ own work and that of classmates.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requires

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Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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